A set of ten representative cases highlighting the implementation of the fair competition review system and the deepening of a unified national market has been officially released.

Since the official implementation of the Fair Competition Review Regulations, market regulatory authorities across various regions have actively advanced the system's application. They have tailored supporting rules to local conditions, improved working mechanisms, strengthened review teams, established cross-regional collaboration frameworks, and explored digital and intelligent review methods, accumulating a wealth of effective practices and valuable experience.

To fully leverage the guiding role of these exemplary practices, enhance public awareness of fair competition, and demonstrate the firm commitment of market regulators nationwide to continuously remove barriers hindering the construction of a unified national market while maintaining a fair competitive order, the following ten model cases have been announced.

1. Beijing Municipal Market Supervision Bureau Builds a Multi-Tiered Supervision System to Safeguard the Unified National Market

The Beijing Municipal Market Supervision Bureau has developed a fair competition review sampling system comprising "municipal-level coordinated sampling, regional collaborative cross-checks, and grassroots practical exploration." For five consecutive years, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has conducted online cross-checks, promoting unified review standards and mutual recognition of results. This multi-level, multi-dimensional sampling system has continuously optimized the market competition environment, removed obstacles hindering unified markets and fair competition, and formed the "Beijing Experience."

At the municipal level, strong oversight with rigid sampling has been used to enforce primary responsibilities. In 2025, Beijing strictly implemented the Fair Competition Review Regulations and its enforcement rules, conducting online sampling of policies and measures issued in 2024 by 54 municipal administrative bodies and 16 district governments and their affiliates. The focus was on areas of high concern to businesses, such as market access and exit, investment promotion, public bidding, government procurement, and funeral services. A total of 1,000 documents were reviewed, and all four problematic documents identified were fully rectified. The results were incorporated into the city's performance evaluation system, with increased weight on the revision or abolition of problematic documents, forcing responsibility through assessment.

To break down regional barriers, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei collaboration has been promoted through regional mutual inspection. Since 2021, the three regions have established a collaborative review mechanism, jointly issuing the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Fair Competition Review Mutual Inspection Guide. This has achieved "three unifications" in review standards, identification criteria, and work procedures, and enabled mutual recognition of review and third-party evaluation results. Over the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the three regions conducted annual, normalized mutual inspections, reviewing a total of 330 policies and measures. Between 2024 and 2025, 150 policy documents were reviewed online, leading to the rectification of 12 problematic documents.

2. Heilongjiang Provincial Market Supervision Bureau Establishes Six Major Mechanisms to Enhance Review Quality

The Heilongjiang Provincial Market Supervision Bureau has innovatively built six major mechanisms, including high-level coordination, unified review by specific bodies, and a tripartite linkage for sampling, to continuously improve the quality and efficiency of fair competition reviews. This provides a replicable and scalable "Heilongjiang Experience" for eliminating local protection and market segmentation.

At the core is a system of "8+N" full-chain rules, including committee work rules, major policy joint reviews, unified review by specific bodies, complaint handling, sampling inspections, a "three letters and two documents" system, clue verification, and commissioned investigations. A specific review rule for the government procurement sector has also been introduced, forming a closed-loop system of "pre-review, in-process monitoring, and post-rectification."

A unified review model by specific bodies has been implemented, requiring policy-making bodies to designate their legal or administrative offices as the specific review unit. The process involves a "drafting body initial review + specific body final review" procedure. A "tripartite linkage" inspection model of "department self-inspection + provincial bureau key inspection + third-party evaluation patrol" has been adopted. In 2025, over 40,000 policies and measures were reviewed, with a problem detection rate of around 1.4%.

The "three letters and two documents" soft regulatory system has been established, issuing 36 reminders and 7 verification suggestion letters as of 2025, prompting the rectification of 203 policies. Third-party professional evaluations have been introduced to leverage their expertise, with 37,000 policy documents reviewed and 389 documents suspected of containing restrictive clauses identified.

3. Jiangsu Provincial Market Supervision Bureau Pioneers Digital Review to Serve the Unified National Market

The Jiangsu Provincial Market Supervision Bureau has pioneered the development of an online fair competition review monitoring and evaluation system, using big data and AI to conduct real-time monitoring, intelligent review, and risk early warning of policies issued by policy-making bodies at all levels.

The system utilizes large language models and AI to develop five monitoring and evaluation models, establishing three major monitoring centers for stock, risk, and incremental policies. It creates three application scenarios: stock monitoring, incremental evaluation, and stock self-check. In March 2025, the system was connected to the DeepSeek large model, enabling three-dimensional linkage of superior law comparison, case library sharing, and rule updates during reviews. It monitors an average of over 2,000 documents daily.

The application scenarios have been broadened to create a versatile "smart brain." The Jiangsu bureau, in collaboration with the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Finance, introduced an "online fair competition review for procurement documents" function within the "Su Caiyun" government procurement system, preventing problematic documents from being issued at the source. The Nantong City bureau further deepened the application by linking the intelligent monitoring system with the "Su Caiyun" platform, generating a unique QR code as a "pass" for procurement documents when uploaded.

4. Zhejiang Provincial Market Supervision Bureau Creates a "Zhejiang Model" for AI-Powered Fair Competition Review

Zhejiang has innovatively built a Fair Competition AI Smart Review Platform, constructing a three-tier progressive review mechanism of "AI preliminary screening – expert review – intelligent archiving." This achieves full lifecycle intelligent management of policies and measures. The platform, locally deployed and driven by a domestic large model, integrates functions like intelligent review, dynamic inspection, closed-loop processing, and smart learning. Since its launch in October 2025, overall policy review efficiency has increased by over 60%, with an accuracy rate of 86% for identifying violations.

The platform integrates 19,000 national and provincial laws, regulations, and policy documents, and a dynamically updated local intelligent case library. It has reviewed over 28,000 incremental policy documents, identifying over 3,100 suspected violations, and inspected over 35,000 stock policy documents, with 259 key risk clues closed-loop processed. The process includes pre-issuance source prevention through AI risk identification, in-process 24/7 dynamic monitoring of government websites, and a post-hoc online disposal closed-loop for clues.

Penetrative early warning supervision has been implemented by linking the AI platform with the public resource trading system. This ensures a 100% review rate for legally required bidding projects and a 100% disposal rate for identified issues.

5. Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui Establish a Collaborative Fair Competition Review Mechanism

The fair competition review regionalization in the Yangtze River Delta is a key measure for building a unified national market. The cooperation has deepened from provincial-level agreements to practical collaboration among specific city clusters, forming a multi-layered partnership system.

At the provincial level, in September 2023, the market regulation bureaus of Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui signed the Yangtze River Delta Fair Competition Policy Integration Promotion Cooperation Agreement, establishing a basic framework for regional competition cooperation. Significant results have been achieved, with Shanghai proposing to explore a collaborative mechanism for the four provinces and cities, and Zhejiang implementing a new version of its fair competition review rules.

At the city cluster level, in July 2025, six cities in the "Taihu Lake Rim Circle" signed the Taihu Lake Rim Circle Fair Competition Review Integration Cooperation Agreement. This marks a substantive operational phase, exploring a "1+N" collaboration mechanism involving platform building, joint inspections, and publicity guidance. The platform includes expert think tanks, case studies, law enforcement exchanges, and data analysis. Joint inspections are conducted on key industries using both online and offline methods.

6. Fujian Provincial Market Supervision Bureau Promotes Local Legislation to Enforce the Fair Competition Review System

The Fujian Provincial Market Supervision Bureau took the lead in issuing the Fujian Province Fair Competition Promotion Regulations. This local legislation solidifies the binding force of the fair competition review system and innovates supporting measures like joint reviews, cross-regional collaboration, and corporate compliance incentives. Since its implementation, it has targeted local protection and hidden access barriers.

Passed by the provincial people's congress and taking effect in December 2024, the Regulations is the first provincial-level local regulation in China to specifically detail the implementation of the national review system. It includes a dedicated chapter on fair competition review, codifying self-review, major policy joint reviews, and third-party evaluations. It also creates a pioneering chapter on the fair competition environment, clarifying the responsibilities of the government, businesses, industry associations, and judicial bodies.

Leveraging the Regulations, the provincial departments of justice, development and reform, and market regulation jointly issued a unified review method for policy documents, establishing a parallel review model combining "legality review + macro-policy consistency assessment + fair competition review." In 2025, market regulators across the province reviewed 1,609 important policies, proposed 1,247 amendments to 413 documents, and inspected 13,900 stock policies, compelling the rectification of 306 documents that hindered fair competition.

7. Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, Establishes a Four-Pronged Fair Competition Review System

The Shenzhen Municipal Market Supervision Bureau has established a "self-review + centralized review + smart review + external oversight" four-pronged system. This system effectively improves review quality and efficiency, preventing restrictive policies from being issued at the source and providing "Shenzhen Experience" for the unified national market.

The system features a dual review model of "business department preliminary review + internal specific body unified final review" across the city. A joint review mechanism for major policies has been established, requiring all normative documents issued in the name of the municipal government to undergo review by the market supervision bureau before deliberation. A fair competition big data screening and early warning system runs 24/7, monitoring 600 government departments' websites and public platforms, including high-risk government procurement tender announcements.

In 2025, all districts and departments in the city reviewed 1,133 incremental policies and 6,308 tender documents, and cleaned up 3,397 stock policies. The municipal and district market regulators reviewed 788 policies, of which 363 were joint reviews of important policies. They identified 308 problematic documents, a 39% rate. The big data system screened over 30,000 documents, with 125 suspected violations found after manual review. Public oversight channels are widely published through government portals, WeChat accounts, and service hotlines, forming a co-governance structure.

8. Chongqing City Constructs a "1+2+N" Fair Competition Review System

The Chongqing Municipal Market Supervision Bureau has formed a "1+2+N" system, with one local regulation as the foundation, two core documents from the Party committee and government, and multiple supporting rules. The system's effectiveness is evident, with public satisfaction with the fair competition market environment rising from 72.2% in 2022 to 89.8% in 2025.

The "1" is the revised Chongqing Anti-Unfair Competition Regulations, which includes a dedicated chapter on fair competition environment construction, mandating that policy-making bodies must conduct fair competition reviews. The "2" are the Party committee and government documents. The Chongqing Action Plan for Strengthening Anti-Monopoly and Deepening Fair Competition Policy Implementation proposes 34 reform measures across 14 areas. The Chongqing Fair Competition Review System Implementation Measures comprehensively regulates the review work across six aspects: coordination, review mechanism, requirements, Sichuan-Chongqing collaboration, digital construction, and rigid constraints. The "N" includes multiple supporting rules, such as complaint handling, joint review regulations, interview guidelines, and sampling rules. The problem detection rate during the self-review stage increased from 0.19% in 2019 to 14.03% in 2025, while the rate during evaluation sampling decreased from 16.25% to 5.34% over the same period.

9. Sichuan Provincial Market Supervision Bureau Promotes Professional Review Position Construction to Enhance Efficiency

The Sichuan Provincial Market Supervision Bureau has explored the establishment of a fair competition review position system. By defining positions, clarifying responsibilities, and providing training, the review force has shifted from "dispersed and weak" to "specialized and professional," significantly improving the quality and efficiency of review work.

Following the principle of "graded establishment, professional allocation, and dynamic management," the bureau has standardized fair competition review positions at the provincial, city, and county levels. As of now, 308 dedicated review personnel have been identified across the three levels, forming a specialized review network. Their responsibilities include conducting self-reviews, performing joint reviews for major policies, conducting regular assessments, and coordinating sampling and cross-evaluations. Since implementation, the province has reviewed over 3,500 policies, including 2,300 joint reviews resulting in 1,500 suggestions.

A three-in-one capacity-building mechanism of "on-the-job training, monthly seminars, and annual drills" has been established to address practical challenges. This has nurtured a group of review personnel who are bold, competent, and skilled, enabling them to accurately identify local protection, market barriers, and discriminatory policies.

10. Yunnan Provincial Market Supervision Bureau Innovates Big Data Monitoring Mechanism to Support the Unified National Market

The Yunnan Provincial Market Supervision Bureau has built a smart regulatory mechanism for full collection, intelligent screening, and closed-loop rectification. Using technology, it achieves comprehensive dynamic monitoring of all policies and measures across the province, continuously strengthening the binding force of fair competition reviews.

A normalized sampling mechanism has been established, with a full-chain process covering scope, verification, issue identification, graded assignment, rectification, and verification. A three-tier data collection channel has been opened at the provincial, city, and county levels, enabling dynamic aggregation and synchronous analysis of policies. Intelligent algorithms precisely identify hidden restrictive clauses, compensating for technical gaps at the grassroots level. The system focuses on key areas like investment promotion, bidding, and government procurement, targeting high-risk situations such as local protection and differential treatment.

A closed-loop processing mechanism of "smart early warning, graded assignment, rectification within a deadline, verification and closure, and notification and exposure" has been established. Sampling and rectification results are incorporated into the province's business environment performance assessment. Since implementation, the system has collected 45,000 policies, screened 20,000 relevant to business activities, and identified 1,139 suspected violations, with 68 rectified. Nine sampling reports have been issued, and the dual constraint of notification and assessment has significantly improved the compliance level of policy-making bodies.