China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) launched a nationwide
campaign in May to remove bottlenecks to a unified market and fair competition
and reports positive results. SAMR pushed local standards-management reform
across 31 provincial-level jurisdictions, abolishing more than 7,400 local
standards by end‑June. It reviewed filings for over 15,000 certification rules,
refusing registration for rules that impede fair competition and removing a
batch of low-quality, inefficient rules. Next steps include stepping up
enforcement against abuse of administrative power to exclude or restrict
competition and concentrating investigations on a number of cases SAMR says
hinder efficient economic circulation and the construction of a unified national
market.
