On September 25, a netizen said that they and an employee booked the same return flight through WeChat at the same time, with their own fare at 1357 yuan and the employee's at only 405 yuan — a difference of nearly 1,000 yuan — questioning whether WeChat flight bookings involve "big-data discrimination against returning customers."
On September 19, the Beijing Municipal Market Regulation Bureau announced that it has launched investigations into four online hotel and travel platforms—Fliggy, Tongcheng, Tujia, and Meituan—for suspected illegal activities. On the same day, the China Hotel Association pointed out that these platforms are involved in issues such as high commissions, forced bundling, and data opacity, and called on them to make their search ranking and commission rate rules public.
Master Kong reported instant noodle business revenue of over 13.7 billion yuan, up 2% year on year; Uni-President reported food business revenue of over 5.6 billion yuan, up 4.7% year on year.