Anti-trust rules on platform economy
平台经济反垄断指南发布
The State Council, China's cabinet, on Sunday unveiled anti-trust guidelines on the country's platform economy to ensure fair market competition and promote the innovative¹ and healthy development of the sector².
2月7日，国务院发布关于平台经济领域的反垄断指南，旨在确保市场公平竞争，促进行业创新健康发展。
To identify market dominance abuse behaviors in the sector, it is usually necessary to define the relevant market and analyze³ whether a platform operator has a dominant⁴ position in the market, according to the guideline. Specific case analysis should be further completed to decide whether the operator abuses its market dominance, says the guideline.
指南明确，认定平台经济领域滥用市场支配地位行为，通常需要先界定相关市场，分析经营者在相关市场是否具有支配地位，再根据个案情况分析是否构成滥用市场支配地位行为。
Factors for determining or presuming a platform operator's dominant market position include its market share, ability to control the market, and financial and technical conditions, as well as the competition intensity⁵ and accessibility of the market, according to the guideline.
指南详细列举了认定或者推定经营者具有市场支配地位的考量因素，包括经营者的市场份额、经营者控制市场的能力、经营者的财力和技术条件、相关市场竞争状况、市场进入难易程度等。
It also specifies⁶ behaviors that constitute abusing market dominance, such as unfair pricing, sales below cost, refusal-to-deal, restricted trading, tie-in sales, attaching unreasonable⁷ trading conditions and differential treatment.
同时，指南逐一细化滥用市场支配地位行为表现形式，如不公平价格行为、低于成本销售、拒绝交易、限定交易、搭售或者附加不合理交易条件、差别待遇等。

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