China: MoFCoM and NRDC publish their activity reports for 2015 and six new Guidelines on intellectual property, distribution and procedural rules

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. While the Chinese competition authorities set a record of financial sanctions in 2015 well ahead of all those imposed by the Asian competition authorities, MOFCOM published its merger control activity report for 2015 in early January, while NDRC conducted a review of its core activities for the period 2011-2015 in early March. Record for the imposition of financial penalties The Chinese authorities imposed a total of $1098.8 million in 19 decisions (compared to $403.2 million by the South Korean authorities, $176.7 million by Taiwan, $22.3 million by the Japanese JFTC and $10.6 million by the Indonesian KKPU). In fact, it should be qualified because only