Category: Shenzhen reforms

Shenzhen Takes Lead in Improving Antitrust Enforcement Transparency

Qu Gangyi

Qianhai Pilot Free Trade Zone (“Qianhai”), an innovative area in Shenzhen, aims to create an effective and more transparent antitrust enforcement mechanism.[1] Qianhai is seeking to serve as a role model for the country by improving the transparency of antitrust investigations. The Guidelines on Anti-monopoly Work (“Guideline”)[2] promulgated by the Qianhai Management Committee (“Committee”) is a big step towards achieving this goal.

This article, divided into five sections, provides an overview of how the Guideline improves antitrust transparency. Section One explains the problem of transparency of antitrust investigation in current laws and practices. The next three sections articulate three important institutional reforms in the Guideline: clarifying investigation authority and the process before investigation, … Read the rest

Luohu Model: Introduction to Shenzhen’s Medical Reforms

Ru Qian*          

Responding to the social needs and central government policies, the Shenzhen government created and implemented some pilot measures in the new round of nationwide medical reform.1 They were together combined into the Luohu Model of medical reform and legislatively confirmed in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Medical Regulations (Regulation), which is considered to be the “basic law” of Shenzhen’s medical industry.2

This blogpost introduces the specific measures of the Luohu Model, and two crucial provisions of the Regulation:

Article 9 requires functions of different levels of institutions be reasonably divided.

Article 19 reforms the measuring of costs and payment of medical funds.3

Such provisions solidified the pilot measures tried by the Luohu government, effected to … Read the rest