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Young, Huang; Zhe, Zhang --- "Anti Monopoly Law" [2011] ELECD 848; in Kariyawasam, Rohan (ed), "Chinese Intellectual Property and Technology Laws" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)

Book Title: Chinese Intellectual Property and Technology Laws

Editor(s): Kariyawasam, Rohan

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849800082

Section: Chapter 11

Section Title: Anti Monopoly Law

Author(s): Young, Huang; Zhe, Zhang

Number of pages: 29

Extract:

11. Anti Monopoly Law
Huang Young and Zhang Zhe1

11.1. INTRODUCTION

It is high time to look back on the formation process of the Chinese anti-
trust legal system and particularly the Chinese Anti Monopoly Law (here-
inafter referred to as the AML), which was promulgated on 30 August
2007 and came into effect on 1 August 2008 in the People's Republic of
China.

11.1.1. History of China's Approach in the Area of Competition Policy

1978 is commonly recognized as a turning point in the contemporary
history of China, when the Chinese central government made a strategic
shift to adopt a `reform and opening-up' policy. In 1980, the State Council
issued the Provisional Regulation on Conducting and Protecting Socialist
Competition (known as the `Ten Clauses of Competition'),2 which was
the first-ever official document in this domain. Slowly but surely, the State
Council then promulgated the Notice on Seriously Resolving the Problem
of Tie-in Sale in 1986,3 the Regulation on Pricing Administration in
19874 and the Notice on Breaking Local Market Blockade and further



1 Both of the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE).
2 For the full text, please refer to the website of the Legislative Affairs Office
of the State Council of the People's Republic of China: http://fgk.chinalaw.gov.
cn/article/xzfg/198010/19801000125495.shtml, accessed July 2010. The Regulation
was valid from 17 October 1980 until 6 October 2001.
3 See the website of ...