CRI听力:"Blacklist" Supervision System for E-commerce to be Established in China

The Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce has been authorized by China's business watchdog to establish a third-party platform to supervise ecommerce transactions across the country.

The vice mayor of Beijing, Cheng Hong, told a meeting of local political advisors over the weekend that the first phase of the platform will be online this year.
Shoddy ecommerce businesses will be blacklisted.

He says the move was authorized by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce and aims to break the regional and departmental barriers in the supervision of e-commerce and further streamline the development of online markets.

According to the vice mayor, the number of consumer complaints about e-commerce transactions has been on the rise, from 28,000 cases in 2012 to 46,000 cases in 2014 in Beijing alone.

Shoddy contracts, poor after-sale service and poor product quality top the list of complaints.

For more this, we are now joined live by Mike Bastin, Director of The China Business Centre based in London.