Faced with Liu Haotian's already somewhat excited mood, everyone at the scene was silent. Even Huang Shaolong did not make any remarks for the time being, but looked at Liu Haotian with complex eyes, waiting for Liu Haotian to say the next words.
Liu Haotian waited for a while and saw that no one spoke, so he continued to ask and answer himself: "I can tell you clearly that the ultimate consequence of the polarization between rich and poor is social instability!
This is precisely the taboo of our economic development!
Comrades, when we started reform and opening up, we made it very clear that our principle is to allow some people to get rich first, and the first to get rich will drive the latter to get rich, and ultimately achieve the goal of common prosperity.
But now, with the continuous influx of foreign capital and the deepening of our reform and opening up, more and more elites rely on their own intelligence and willingly become the comprador class. They take the money given to them by foreign capitalists.
We are constantly conquering cities and territories in various domestic application fields, and constantly achieving the ultimate goal of monopolizing application scenarios.
And the ultimate consequence of their doing this is that more and more people like the old gentleman, the dealers on the scene, and the vegetable vendors who defend their rights have caused many people who are struggling to survive to lose the space they rely on to survive.
Put them out of work and make almost everyone in the entire application scenario chain a prisoner of capital.
They will ultimately achieve their goal of monopolizing the entire industry chain through the integration of the entire industry chain.
Maybe you are all leaders in the city, you are holding an iron rice bowl, and you don’t understand how difficult it is for these ordinary people to survive! Especially when they lose the application scenarios they rely on to survive, when they lose the application scenarios they rely on to survive.
After their careers, what will they rely on to survive?”
When Liu Haotian said this, his voice became deeper and deeper.
Liu Haotian is very anxious now.
Because the current situation is something he has never seen before, including in his father Liu Qingyu’s diary, he has never seen this situation before. This is a new consumption model. This is a new consumption pattern.
Economic model, this is a very headache for officials.
Because for them, the economy must develop, a good business development environment must be maintained, and at the same time, it must ensure that the socialist market economy operates stably in compliance with its laws. At the same time, the living space of a large number of people must be taken into account.
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All of these are tests for Liu Haotian and others in power.
Liu Haotian doesn't know if others have ever considered these things in depth, but Liu Haotian is thinking about how to let more people truly live a well-off life all the time.
After Liu Haotian finished speaking, Huang Shaolong slowly raised his head and said in a deep voice: "Mayor Liu, we all know what you just said. But the question is, should the Internet application platform develop? Should we?
Encourage them to develop?
Especially at this stage, if we are to deepen the supply-side structural reform, give full play to my country's ultra-large market advantages and domestic demand potential, and build a new development pattern in which domestic and international dual cycles promote each other, should we give full play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation? ?
If according to your idea, we directly cut these Internet application platform companies across the board and cut them all off, wouldn't this give these dealers and these small traders room to survive?
But if this is the case, are we going back to the development model of more than ten years ago?"
Huang Shaolong's words were very targeted, pointing the finger directly at Liu Haotian.
Liu Haotian shook his head slightly: "Comrade Huang Shaolong, I can tell you clearly that the Internet market often has a natural monopoly tendency under the influence of network effects. In particular, large Internet platforms can rely on their users, technology, and data to
Advantages form a self-reinforcing feedback loop under the influence of network effects, which will eventually lead to the continuous accumulation of capital, traffic, data and other resources into large platforms, and the resulting huge competitive advantages can enable it to obtain and maintain a monopoly position.
Internet application platforms that are in a monopoly position will constantly set up various obstacles to prevent new competitors from entering the market to challenge their position. This is a dynamic market competition.
In the early stages of the development of the Internet economy, our regulatory agencies lacked experience and were unable to promptly and effectively identify and intervene in various types of monopolistic behaviors that distort market competition. Therefore, they often adopted a loose regulatory attitude towards corporate platforms, which also led to some companies with
The anti-competitive behavior carried out by monopoly platform companies has not been effectively supervised and regulated, and the result of this operation is that the innovation promoted by our country cannot exert the positive effect it should have.
Especially under the current situation, Internet application platforms have each developed a huge ecosystem, and through their monopoly positions in their respective fields, they continue to implement a series of forced 2-to-1 methods and big data killing.
These despicable means seriously undermine the order of market competition, and these behaviors pose a substantial threat to the interests of consumers.
I believe that in this case, what we need to do is to strengthen antitrust supervision and eliminate the threat of monopolistic behavior to market competition. Only in this way can the market play a decisive role in resource allocation.
But at the same time, we must also point out that the overall trend of the economic development of our country's Internet platform is good and the role is positive, but problems are also prominent, especially the problem of inapplicable supervision.
In this case, what we need to do is not what you just said is one size fits all, and I cannot support a one size fits all regulatory model.
We must prevent lax regulation, but at the same time we must prevent the situation where one regulation leads to death, and we must not excessively interfere with the market and create a situation of static regulation.”
Huang Shaolong sneered and said: "Mayor Liu, according to what you said, it's all you inside and outside. You're right no matter what, but the problem is that there is a contradiction between the two. If you don't enforce supervision, so what?
Can antitrust be achieved?
Liu Haotian smiled: "Mayor Huang, it seems you don't understand our country's anti-monopoly law.
First of all, I want to tell you clearly that it is not illegal for an operator to have a dominant market position, and the determination of the illegality of an operator's specific behavior requires an analysis of whether the behavior has the effect of restricting competition.
At present, my country's antitrust law does not oppose monopoly status, but opposes monopolistic behaviors that have the effect of illegal exclusion and restriction of competition. However, we must also avoid the mentality of no supervision and weak supervision, and we must not be overly tolerant in practice. There is a lack of supervision of the Internet market, let alone the inertia of supervision that can be avoided in the name of tolerance.
The purpose of our current implementation of effective supervision is not to restrict the development of individual platform companies, but to prevent the disorderly expansion of capital through platform monopoly and cross-border transmission, avoid threats to the fair and free market competition order, and create a solid foundation for the platform economy.
Healthy development provides a market-oriented, legal and international business environment, and at the same time, we must also provide strong protection for the legitimate rights and interests of consumers.
Therefore, my supervisory philosophy is to pay equal attention to strong supervision and promotion of development!
I think that at this stage, we must first strengthen the construction of anti-monopoly law enforcement agencies and teams, so I think we should increase the number of staff for the Market Supervision Administration, especially for their anti-monopoly law enforcement agencies, and through open recruitment
, recruit some professionals with strong technical and professional skills to do this job. We need to optimize the setup of anti-monopoly agencies, increase professional staff, and at the same time rationally allocate anti-monopoly law enforcement powers within regulatory departments and take practical measures to strengthen anti-monopoly.
Monopoly law enforcement capacity building.
I think that at this stage, our primary goal is to strictly supervise those monopolistic companies like Tuantuan Community Group Buying Platform, especially their behavior of plundering market share through low-price dumping, strictly regulate them, and increase scrutiny.
intensity and increase the cost of violating the law."
Huang Shaolong did not expect that while Liu Haotian was tough, he also considered his attitude towards classifying and supervising these Internet companies and implementing precise policies.
This made his plan to find Liu Haotian's fault come to nothing.
Huang Shaolong frowned and said: "Mayor Liu, then what do you think we should do with the Tuantuan Community Group Buying Company?"
Liu Haotian smiled slightly: "I think there is no rule without rules. Therefore, the first thing we should do is to issue a programmatic document such as the Guidelines for Compliance Operation of Online Community Group Buying. In this document, we should clarify the group buying platform operators
Methods of carrying out online community group buying operations, qualifications for market access, information submission, etc.
We must clarify the requirements for online community group buying operators in terms of food safety, product quality, information disclosure, promotional activities, etc.
We must also clearly prohibit the abuse of independent pricing power, prohibit monopolistic behavior, prohibit unfair competition, prohibit consumer fraud, prohibit big data familiarity and other related content, and formulate specific rules for consumer protection.
In a word, we must rectify the entire chain of community group buying to prevent it from continuing to grow wildly and prevent it from becoming chaotic. Shared bicycles and long-term rental apartments have provided us with warnings. We must not tolerate community group buying becoming such a mess.
The final project will ultimately harm the interests of the people!
In particular, the most stringent supervision will be implemented on behaviors such as low-price dumping, price collusion, price gouging, and price fraud.
Especially for the low-price dumping behavior, the strictest punitive measures must be formulated against their behavior!
As long as he dares to dump at low prices, as long as it is implemented by our regulatory authorities, he must bear the serious consequences of disrupting the market! Our regulatory authorities must not ignore it!"
Huang Shaolong was silent.
He was thinking about how he should respond to Liu Haotian's calm reply.
Huang Shaolong pondered for a moment, a proud smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then said in a cold voice: "Mayor Liu, according to your wishes, we have to formulate relevant rules first, so does this mean that we will not deal with it for the time being?