Unfair competitive practices between the two companies, especially the move to unilaterally shut down the instant-messaging service, affected users and caused "bad social consequences," according to a MIIT statement.
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The move is part of a bid to strengthen the management of the country's online market and promote the healthy and orderly development of the industry,burberry, he said.
"We have finishing soliciting opinions for the new regulation and will publish it soon," Zhang said.
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Zhang said the ministry is also working on an online industry development plan to be implemented during the country's 12th Five-Year Plan period (2011-2015).
Zhang Feng,abercrombie, director of the ministry's Department of Communications Development,casque beats, made the announcement at a press conference concerning China's first-quarter industrial operations.
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