Involution-style competition · Full chronicle and history

The National Development and Reform Commission and the State Administration for Market Regulation issued Document No. 1303, the "Notice on Matters Concerning Cost Accounting for Low-Price and Disorderly Competition in Important Industrial Products," requiring cost accounting for important industrial products.

On May 25, 2026, the Beijing Municipal Administration for Market Regulation convened a joint conference on online market regulation, summoning 17 key e-commerce and platform companies for talks and demanding that they implement anti-involution competition and eliminate large-scale irrational subsidy promotions.

The Jinnan Branch of the Tianjin Public Security Bureau released an announcement to recruit 70 auxiliary police officers. Among them, a position recruiting 10 people received 3079 applications, resulting in a competition ratio of about 307 to 1.