The official website of the National People’s Congress published the P.R.C. Electronic Commerce Law (Second Draft for Comments, hereinafter the “Second Draft”) and solicited comments from the public until November 26, 2017.

According to the Second Draft, e-commerce operators shall not infringe upon consumers’ right to know by means such as false advertising, fictitious transactions and/or fabricated user reviews. They should display search results to consumers in various sorting orders including prices and sales volume of the products or services, and credibility of the sellers. The word “advertisement” must be displayed in a prominent manner for products or services using the paid listing model. In addition, e-commerce platform operators may not impose unreasonable limitations or transaction conditions on the transactions and transaction prices of platform operators by means of their service agreements and transaction rules; nor shall they impose unreasonable fees on platform operators.

(Source: NPC’s official website)