Existing scholarship regards the collusion between the Chinese government and the private sector as 'informal' and a series of 'economic alliances', without considering the private sector's institutionalized participation in the process of government policy formulation. This article takes an...

Trade associations present a peculiar issue in China’s competition law, due to their unusual origin and development. To facilitate the still on-going government restructuring during the past three decades, most of China’s trade associations were created primarily to take over the...