China: MOFCOM authorizes a merger in the online retail industry while partly prohibiting the acquiring party to enter some relevant markets (People’s Daily)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The Chinese Antimonopoly Law, which came into force four years ago, on 1 August 2008, is a text that attempts to assert itself as the economic constitution of China with a strong international trade dimension, but also industrial strategy and protection of sectoral regulation (see notably F. Souty, "China: The Anti-Monopoly Law of 30 August 2007, Concurrences No. 4-2007, pp. 158-164. and by the same author, "China's Antimonopoly Law - Stocktaking : The Chinese Competition Authority draws a first assessment of the two years of implementation of the Antimonopoly Law" (Beijing, 12 August 2010), Concurrences No. 4-2010, pp. 235-238). Four years of merger