Promulgated: June 18 2003

Effective: January 1 2003

Interpreting authority: National Development and Reform Commission

Applicability: "Price monopoly acts" is defined as acts of business operators that manipulate the market-regulated price, disrupt the normal production and business order, prejudice the lawful rights and interests of other business operators or consumers, or jeopardize the public interest through mutual collusion or abuse of their leading roles in the market (Article 2).