2016 to 2018 “Reducing Policy Barriers to Competition in China: Lessons of International Experience”
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This project is a follow-up study to the previous project on “Accelerating China’s Growth by Strengthening Competition: Some International Perspectives”. It was undertaken following consultations with the NDRC and other relevant government departments, and after the State Council’s issuance of Document No. 34 (June 2016) on “Opinions on Establishing a Fair Competition Review System in the Development of Market System”. The project was led by Cyril Lin, Sir Derek Morris and William Kovacic, and was aimed at examining issues and options for the further development of China’s Fair Competition Review System (FCRS) in the light of international lessons with similar systems for addressing anticompetitive policies and regulations. The international experience covered by the project included the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Competition Assessment Toolkit and Competitive Neutrality principles, the EU State Aid Control Regime, the UK Market Investigation System and the US Competition Advocacy Programme. The project team included leading Chinese and international experts, including current and former officials of the OECD (Sean Ennis), the Italian Competition Authority (Alberto Heimler), the UK Competition Commission (now the Competition and Markets Authority) and the US Federal Trade Commission, and cooperation with the European Union Directorate-General for Competition and a former senior legal counsel on competition in the EU (Elizabtta Righini). The project was completed in 2018 and its report in Chinese was published in 2019.