Xi Jinping says Big Tech crackdown is making progress, calls for Communist Party to ‘guide’ companies
- Xi says antitrust campaign against internet platforms has seen early results and called for the Party to do more to supervise businesses
- Beijing’s crackdown has led to a market rout this year that has wiped US$1 trillion off Chinese tech stocks

Beijing’s campaign to “prevent the irrational expansion of capital” and address “barbarous growth” in China’s technology sector is beginning to bear fruit in the wake of an accelerated antitrust campaign targeting internet platforms, Chinese President Xi Jinping said at a central leadership meeting on Monday afternoon.
Xi also warned that the Communist Party must do more to “guide and supervise” the country’s businesses with clear rules, effective regulations and greater policy transparency.
According to the meeting notes released last December, “preventing the disorderly expansion of capital” involves better regulations and standards for identifying monopolistic companies, governing the collection and use of data, and protecting consumer rights.
