China vows greater efforts to tackle unfair competition

China will make more efforts to tackle unfair competition in its various forms, officials said on Wednesday.

With the development of the market economy and escalation of competition, modes of unfair competition have also evolved, creating challenges for law enforcement, Yang Wenbin, vice director of the Anti-monopoly and Anti-Unfair Competition Enforcement Bureau of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC), told Xinhua.

In the two decades since China's Law Against Unfair Competition first took effect in 1993, the SAIC bureau has handled nearly 550,000 cases involving unfair competition.

The bureau has mainly targeted seven kinds of unfair competition, including counterfeiting, commercial defamation, misleading publicity, bribery, unlawful lottery-attached sales, infringement of commercial secrets and restricting competition.

However, a lack of laws or regulations to fight unfair competition in emerging fields such as the Internet has become evident, Yang said, noting that existent laws need revisions to cover new situations.

New technologies and equipment should be put to good use for better law enforcement, Yang added.

SAIC will pay more attention to areas that affect people's livelihood and strengthen its supervision in the consumer goods industry as well as public enterprises, said Ren Airong, director of the bureau.