Unfair competition and disorderly expansion of capital raise manufacturing costs? Operators "must have a degree" in terms of borders

Reporter Jia Li

The 14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China and the Outline of Long-term Goals for 2035 clearly put forward that the judicial intensity of anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition law enforcement should be strengthened to prevent the disorderly expansion of capital.

In the industry's view, the disorderly expansion of capital will not only bring some hidden risks, but also may affect technological innovation, bring monopolies, and hinder economic development. It is urgent to strengthen the supervision and management of anti-monopoly and the disorderly expansion of capital.

Establish a constraint mechanism

Maintain a level playing field

Looking at China's manufacturing industry, phenomena such as unfair competition still exist. In the phenomenon of unfair competition, intellectual property infringement has become a typical example.

In the field of air conditioning alone, there have been many intellectual property lawsuits, and patent negotiations between enterprises are continuous. Gree, Midea, Sharp, Hisense, and Oaks have all caught each other and had a tug-of-war on technology patents. The cumulative amount of claims between some enterprises has reached hundreds of millions of yuan.

In addition to intellectual property litigation, incidents such as false reports of energy efficiency standards and technology theft also occur from time to time among air-conditioning companies, and the market competition is fierce.

During the two sessions of the National People's Congress this year, Dong Mingzhu, chairman and president of Gree Electric Appliances, said in an interview with the Securities Daily reporter: "Competitors poach from Gree, the other side in order to conceal the change of name and surname, such incidents occur frequently. It is hoped that China will issue corresponding regulations on legal protection and strengthen supervision and punishment for such bad behavior. ”

Dong Mingzhu has repeatedly expressed his dissatisfaction with the technology theft and poaching incident in public. She said that during the most serious period, more than 600 technicians were poached in a year, and suggested further establishing a constraint mechanism to maintain a level playing field.

In the new round of market competition, Chinese enterprises, including the air-conditioning industry, should establish a sense of property rights as soon as possible and respect the order of fair competition in the market.

In an interview with the Securities Daily reporter, The founder of lens company research and the research expert of capital market and listed companies, said: "In terms of strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights, China should make further breakthroughs in legislation and law enforcement, so that intellectual property infringers have more serious consequences and strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights." Intellectual property litigation consumes a lot of manpower and material resources and increases the cost of enterprises. Sanctions for intellectual property infringement will effectively stop unfair market competition such as the circulation and utilization of knowledge products. ”

Wang Zhangming, a senior human resources expert and executive director of the Anhui Provincial Labor Society, said that maintaining a fair market environment is an important task that global economies are doing, and China is no exception, especially in the past few years, the development of China's Internet giants, using large-scale subsidies, burning money, horse racing and other abnormal market means to collect personal and unit information, forming a monopoly of data and information resources, contrary to the principle of market fairness. In recent years, the integrated development of Internet enterprises and entity enterprises has guided the orderly development of Internet enterprises and also had a significant impact on the maintenance of a fair environment in the manufacturing industry. Curbing the collection and application of huge data resources of Internet platform enterprises will become the focus of anti-monopoly review.

"Strengthening anti-monopoly is an important way to maintain fair market competition." Wang Zhangming said.

Strengthen supervision and guidance

Raise costs for offenders

At present, in many fields such as manufacturing and Internet industry, capital is often prone to overheating. Preventing the disorderly expansion of capital is of great importance to China's establishment of a fair market competition environment and the promotion of high-quality development.

In the industry's view, the phenomenon of disorderly expansion of capital should be strengthened and guided, because illegal and unscrupulous expansion will increase the financial costs of manufacturing.

"Capital support should be developed in high-tech fields such as intelligent manufacturing that can truly promote industrial upgrading." Strengthening the degree of anti-unfair competitiveness and preventing the disorderly expansion of capital will provide a better environment for the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry. Guan Yuqing thought.

Speaking of capital expansion, Dong Mingzhu said: "Enterprises are not supported by capital, but by technology. Listed companies should have the courage to take responsibility and walk steadily. It is necessary to build itself into a healthy and sustainable development enterprise, improve its core competitiveness, and fulfill the responsibilities of listed companies. ”

Zhou Xibing, a researcher at the Soft Power Research Center of China's local enterprises, said in an interview with the Securities Daily reporter that to establish a fair market environment and prevent excessive expansion of capital, we should further standardize the business behavior of large enterprises, so that they can achieve operational compliance and escort the survival and development of thousands of small and micro enterprises. As a business operator, you must operate in compliance, and even in competition, you must compete in a standardized way. In terms of boundaries, operators must have a degree and cannot take advantage of the gaps in the law to carry out disorderly expansion. Operators must be clear that technology has a country, and the core technology of their own industry is developed, so that they can hide their skills in enterprises and truly become global hidden champions.

"Strengthen anti-monopoly and prevent the disorderly expansion of capital, so that the development of related industries has a law to follow, then laws and regulations and industry norms will clearly define the responsibilities and obligations of industry practitioners, law enforcement will become stricter, the cost of violating the law will become higher, industry norms and industry standards will be gradually formulated, and industry self-discipline will gradually take shape." Independent economist Wang Chikun told reporters.

(Edited by Bai Baoyu)

This article originated from the Securities Daily Network Jia Li