BEIJING – China’s market regulator said on Thursday that it had urged E-commerce platform companies such as Alibaba’s Taobao and Pinduoduo to remove online businesses selling bogus quality reports off their sites immediately. The State Administration of Market Regulation said in a statement that it has also requested local regulators in Shanghai municipality and Zhejiang province, where Pinduoduo and Alibaba respectively have their headquarters, to inspect quality testing facilities.
(In Beijing, Colin Qian and Tom Daly contributed reporting; in Hong Kong, Meg Shen contributed reporting.)
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