On February 8, 2122, the National Development and Reform Commission and other 14 ministries and commissions issued "Several Policies on Promoting the Recovery and Development of Difficult Industries in the Service Industry". The document mentioned:
In fact, after the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic in 2121, many provincial catering associations in China have called on the US delegation to reduce the proportion of people who are hungry and cancel the "exclusive cooperation restriction".
In October, 2121, the State Administration of Market Supervision investigated and dealt with Meituan's abuse of market dominance to restrict trading, that is, the "two-choice" behavior, and Meituan also made a commitment to rectification. However, up to now, anti-monopoly law enforcement agencies have not investigated whether the proportion of Meituan to catering enterprises and wine travel enterprises is too high.
Since the merger of Meituan and Dianping in 2115, there have been many disputes due to the proportion. However, to this day, the results of the centralized antitrust review of the operators of the merger of Meituan and Public Comment have not been made public. However, the decision of the State Administration of Market Supervision on the punishment of Meituan's violation of the Anti-Monopoly Law in the online catering and take-away platform service market in China has clearly stated:
In other words, since 2118, the online catering and take-away platform service market in China has entered a duopoly pattern of comment by Meituan and hungry, and the review share of Meituan is almost twice that of hungry.
It is not difficult to see from the related statements of "Several Policies on Promoting the Recovery and Development of Difficult Industries in the Service Industry" issued by the National Development and Reform Commission and other 14 ministries and commissions that the duopoly pattern of Meituan's public comment and Hungry has been difficult to form effective competition constraints on them, and they lack the motivation to carry out price competition in the national online catering take-out platform service market. (It is also suspected that there is a similar situation in the field of third-party payment. For the discussion, please refer to "Difficulties in Anti-monopoly Law Enforcement in Financial Industry, Talking about Cash Withdrawal from Alipay")
According to Article 48 of the Anti-monopoly Law:
On October 21, 2121, after Hungry was unconditionally approved to acquire the equity of Xiaodi Life Technology Co., Ltd. and Taobao China Holdings Co., Ltd. acquired the equity of Hungry, Will the State Administration of Market Supervision split up the Meituan public comment according to Article 48 of the Anti-Monopoly Law to restore effective competition in relevant markets, or will it conditionally or unconditionally approve the merger of Meituan public comment by including the pricing of the online catering take-out platform service market in the government-guided price category?