From October 15th to 16th, the International Symposium on Direct Selling Supervision and Law Enforcement was held in Shanghai. This symposium was sponsored by the Price Supervision and Competition Bureau (Office for Regulating Direct Selling and Combating Pyramid Schemes) of the State Administration for Market Regulation. The theme of the symposium was "Protection · Development · Win-Win". Xu Xinjian, the Director of the Anti-Monopoly Bureau of the State Administration for Market Regulation, and Zhuang Mudi, the Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, attended and delivered speeches.
The conference pointed out that in recent years, market supervision departments at all levels across the country have conscientiously implemented the decision-making arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, effectively strengthened the supervision and service of direct selling, continuously improved the basic systems, created a fair and orderly market competition environment for the standardized, healthy and sustainable development of direct selling enterprises, and provided strong support for constructing a new development pattern and promoting high-quality development. With the progress of comprehensively deepening reforms, the direct selling market is facing rare development opportunities. Market supervision departments will continue to focus on creating a market environment for the development of standardized direct selling, promoting the formulation and revision of relevant laws and regulations, promoting the in-depth integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, improving the supervision system, and strengthening law enforcement.
Representatives of direct selling supervision and law enforcement agencies, direct selling association organizations from more than ten countries, representatives of relevant domestic government departments, judicial organs, market supervision departments, as well as representatives of domestic and foreign enterprises, experts and scholars, etc. participated in the symposium.