On Dec. 12^th 2015, the first Shanghai Competitive Ecosystem Symposium was successfully held by Competitive Ecosystem Research Center in Shanghai University, with the support from Bureau of Price Supervision and Anti-Trust of the National Development and Reform Commission. Mr. Zhang Handong (Head of Bureau of Price Supervision and Anti-Trust), Mr. Luo Hongjie (Secretary of the Communist Party Committee in Shanghai University), Mr. Shi Yaotian (Head of Shanghai Bureau of Price Supervision and Anti-Trust) and Mr. Wen Xueguo (Deputy Director of Shanghai Academy of the Chinese Academy of Social Science) participated in the opening ceremony of the event. More than 100 academics and business managers were invited to the meeting to discuss the competitive ecosystem in China. The opening ceremony was hosted by Mr. You Jianxin, Dean of School of Management, Shanghai University.

In the opening ceremony, Director Zhang Handong introduced the anti-trust development by National Development and Reform Commission and the “Suggestions on Promoting Reformation of Pricing System” recently announced by the State Council. He hoped that scholars can look deeper into problems regarding competition policies to provide a theoretical support for the competition policymaking and enforcement. Such policies may include influences of competition policies on different stages of economic development, and competition policy framework and system design which are consistent of China’s economic development.

The participants had a heated discussion on “Big-data, Anti-trust, and Globalization”. Professor You Jianxin pointed out that the rapid development of market economy is facing more severe challenges, including tests on whether market economy can maintain a healthy and sustainable development. He also stated that one of the most distinctive features of market economy is a free, fair and all-round competition. To maintain such an environment for competition will be the most essential part of competitive ecosystem research, which is not only requested by the national strategy, but will also benefit Shanghai in the course of becoming a global center on science, technology and innovation.

Professor Can Huang from School of Management Zhejiang University gave a presentation on “Standard, Standard Essential Patent and Patent Saturation” and pointed out that with the increased number of patents in the new standard, the profits brought by patents might not grow at the same rate. It will lead to the situation when the cost of applying for and maintaining a patent is higher than its profit, a phenomenon coined as patent saturation. Mr. Zhang Peng (Leader of IP Department in Huawei) offered some advice as to perfect the 85th clause in the Fourth Amendment of the Patent Law of China. Other participants also gave interesting speeches. In all, this symposium aims to promote the research of anti-trust in China under the backdrop of globalization and the big-data era.