China has warned top e-commerce platforms including Alibaba and JD.com to stop p...
) to stop practices that could be deemed as monopolistic, as industry frictions grow ahead of the country’s banner Singles Day shopping event on Nov. 11.
State news agency Xinhua reported on Tuesday that China’s State Administration for Market Regulation called more than 20 platforms to a meeting and urged them to stop a practice that requires merchants to sign exclusive cooperation agreements preventing them from selling products on rival platforms.
Competition for shoppers among China’s top e-commerce platform has been heating up as the world’s second-largest economy grapples with a slowdown. Singles Day, the country’s biggest shopping event of the year, is also a very competitive event, with platforms rolling out various promotions. “For example, platform competition is intensifying and the problem of the “choosing one from two” practice has emerged, which has attracted the concern of many parties,” it said, adding that the practice violated anti-monopoly and e-commerce laws.
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