Although the antimonopoly enforcement in China is still in its
formative years, the significant progress made by China's
antimonopoly regulators has brought about far-reaching impacts on
companies doing business in China. Recently, the three
anti-monopoly regulators, i.e. the National Development and Reform
Commission ("NDRC"), the State
Administration for Industry and Commerce
("SAIC") and the Ministry of Commerce
("MOFCOM") published their latest
enforcement achievements, and NDRC for the first time disclosed its
case volume to the public.
NDRC
To keep its vow of increasing transparency 1, NDRC
took a considerable step in releasing information about their
antitrust investigations to the public. According to Mr. Xu Kunlin,
Director General of Price Supervision and Anti-Monopoly Bureau of
NDRC, a total of 49 price-related cases have been investigated by
NDRC since the enforcement of AML, and 20 of them were closed with
administrative penalties.2 The
