Alibaba Group was fined 654.38+08.228 billion yuan for what?

On April 10, the General Administration of Market Supervision punished Alibaba for allegedly monopolizing the Internet retail market, ordered Alibaba Group to stop its illegal behavior, and imposed a fine of 4% of its sales in China in 20 19, totaling182.28 million yuan. This ticket is also the biggest anti-monopoly ticket issued by China to enterprises so far. The maximum penalty is an anti-monopoly fine of 6.088 billion yuan for Qualcomm.

Alibaba Group is in a leading position in the online retail platform service market in China, and it can dominate the online retail market at will. Since 20 15, Alibaba Group has taken advantage of this dominant position to put forward a "two-in-one" requirement for merchants in the platform, prohibiting merchants in the platform from opening stores or participating in promotional activities on other platforms, and taking various reward and punishment measures to ensure the implementation of the "two-in-one" requirement with the help of market forces, platform rules and big data technology.

The punishment for Alibaba this time is actually to rectify the current Internet retail industry, create a benign Internet retail environment, and promote the sustained and healthy development of the Internet retail market. If Internet companies are allowed to monopolize the retail market at will, it will limit the competition in the domestic online retail platform service market, hinder the free circulation of goods, services and resource elements, affect the innovative development of the platform economy, infringe on the legitimate rights and interests of merchants in the platform, and harm the interests of consumers.

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Lawyer's Interpretation: Anti-monopoly of Internet platform will be more and more strictly controlled.

Regarding this matter, Chu Xia, a special researcher of the Network Economy and Social Security E-commerce Research Center and a lawyer of Zhejiang Kenting Law Firm, said: The centralized anti-monopoly supervision of Internet enterprises started at the end of last year can be said to be the necessity of development, which also means that the development of the Internet in China has entered a relatively mature and stable stage.

The basic determination of industry scale means the marginal decrease of increment. Dominant enterprises keep their increment by excluding competition through monopolistic behavior, which may lead to the decrease of consumer welfare and social welfare in the long run. The legislative purpose and original intention of returning to the Anti-monopoly Law is to "prevent and stop monopolistic behavior, protect fair competition in the market, improve the efficiency of economic operation, safeguard the interests of consumers and the public, and promote the healthy development of the socialist market economy."

Therefore, anti-monopoly is not to attack the head enterprises, nor to restrict or hinder the development of enterprises, but to maintain the competitive vitality of related industries and promote the high-quality and long-term orderly development of enterprises.

At the same time, e-commerce is an important part of the Internet economy, and the e-commerce law also emphasizes that e-commerce operators who abuse market dominance should be punished according to the provisions of relevant laws, which points to the Anti-Monopoly Law.