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- § 01 · E-COMMERCE-LAW
China's 2026 Draft E-Commerce Law Amendment: From Marketplace Transactions to Platform-Economy Governance
On July 4, 2026, the State Administration for Market Regulation and the Ministry of Commerce released the Draft Amendment to the E-Commerce Law for public comment, with comments due August 4, 2026. The draft has 20 articles and, according to the official notice and Xinhua Q&A, moves in five directions: expanding the law's adjustment scope beyond platforms and in-platform operators to other platform-economy participants; strengthening the platform responsibility system with richer, more graduated regulatory tools; building an integrated supervision mechanism for cross-sector platform operations, including consistent online/offline business supervision and stronger department and central-local coordination; targeting prominent illegal conduct in e-commerce; and deepening open cooperation by aligning rules, regulation, management and standards with international practice, supporting industry self-discipline and orderly outbound expansion, and adding countermeasure tools to protect Chinese enterprises. DCC reads the amendment as an attempt to reposition the E-Commerce Law from a transaction/platform statute into a platform-economy governance statute, with operational implications for platform rulemaking, merchant and worker protection, consumer governance, data/network security clauses, competition compliance, and outbound platform expansion.
- § 02 · ENFORCEMENT
Seven Lessons for Data Compliance Teams from the SAMR 'Ghost Takeout' Series — 3.5 Billion Yuan, 9-Month Suspensions, and the Per-Merchant Aggregation Doctrine
In April 2026, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) imposed administrative penalties on seven major e-commerce platforms in the 'ghost takeout' series — 3.5 billion yuan in aggregate corporate fines, nearly 20 million yuan in individual fines on legal representatives and food-safety officers, and 3-to-9-month business suspensions. While the cases were ostensibly food-safety enforcement, their analytical structure — pierce-the-paper-compliance, per-merchant aggregation of penalties, identification of licensed-entity liability holders, dual penalties on individual compliance officers — translates directly to data-compliance enforcement. Adapted from a substantive practitioner analysis by 黄春林 (Huang Chunlin), this DCC brief works through seven operational lessons that DSO / PIPO / DPO and compliance counsel should apply *before* the analogous enforcement wave reaches data compliance.