The Seminar on “Regulation and Compliance under Digital Economy”, sponsored by CASS Institute of International Law and organized by CASS Center for International Competition Law Studies, was held in Beijing on November 18, 2019. The seminar was presided over by Professor Wang Xiaoye, Director of the Center, and attended by over 20 experts and scholars from various government organs, universities, research institutions, and Internet platform enterprise, including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, University of CASS, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing Normal University, Beijing Technology and Business University, Netease, Didi Chuxing, Tencent, Alibaba, Meituan, Beijing ShuidiTech Company, and CASS. The seminar was divided into two units. In the first unit, Associate Professor Ci Seng from Beijing Technology and Business University, Associate Professor Han Wei from the University of CASS, Mr. Zhang Biyi, a legal expert from the Legal Affairs Department of Beijing ShuidiTech Company, and Associate Research Fellow Huang Jin, Deputy Director of the Center for Competition Law Studies of CASS Institute of International, each gave a keynote speech on the direction of reform of German Law Prohibiting Acts of Eliminating or Restricting Competition, whether the Anti-Monopoly Law needs to be revise and how should it respond to the development of the digital economy, application of Article 2 of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law and special provisions on the Internet, and application of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law to Internet blocking behavior, respectively.

In the second unit of the seminar, the participants carried out discussions around the following four topics: 1. how Chinese Government and relevant departments should effectively coordinate the supervision over platform enterprises; 2. How China should, while stressing the fundamental status of competition policies, give full play to the role industrial policy, trade policy, investment policy and financial policy in economic activities; 3. How to improve the compliance of Internet platform enterprises; and 4. How to improve the consumer protection system.