The roundtable meeting on "Competition Policy for China's Digital Economy: An International Perspective" was held at the Beihai Service Center of Beijing Fund Town on November 12, 2019. The conference was co-sponsored by the Beijing Cairncross Economic Research Foundation and Bijiao (Journal of Comparative Studies), and hosted by Beijing Fund Town. The Executive Director of the Foundation, Mr. Cyril Lin, and other scholars co-chaired the meeting.

Chinese experts making presentations at the meeting included the following. Professor Li Qing, executive director of the China Economic System Reform Research Association; Professor Yu Li, director of the Centre for Economic Analysis of Law and Policy Evaluation, Tianjin University of Economics and Finance; Professor Lv Benfu, of the School of Economics and Management, University of China Academy of Sciences; Dr. Chen Yongwei, Director of the Research Department of Bijiao (Comparative Studies); and Dr. Huang Yunhua, Director of Competition Policy Research Office of Electronic Intellectual Property Center, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. International experts attending the roundtable meeting were: Alberto Heimler, Professor of Economics at the Italian National School of Public Management; Damien Geradin, Professor of Economics and Competition Law at Tilburg University in Netherlands; and Alex White, Associate Professor of Economics at the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University. The meeting focused on the current situation, issues and solutions of digital economy competition policies in China and the advanced economies.

Representatives from leading Chinese internet companies such as Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, Beijing AISound Technology, Meituan, Didi and ByteDance(Jinri Toutiao) presented their views on the platform economy's competition issues, barriers faced by internet startups, big data and information security, industry regulation and other related issues, combined with the features of their own businesses.