Efforts made to curb price monopolies: NDRC   

中国反价格垄断获突破性进展 已调查案件49起

“要培养竞争文化，完善竞争政策。只有公平、公开、公正的竞争，才能促进‘三提高一降低’，即管理水平、技术水平和服务质量的提高和价格水平的降低，加快创新型国家建设，保持中国经济发展的持久动力和活力。”

Beijing (CNS)-- China has made impressive breakthroughs in its effort to combat monopoly pricing practices, according to the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) earlier today.

Since the implementation of China's Anti-monopoly Law in 2008, a total of 49 price-fixing cases have been investigated by the NDRC. Six major LCD panel producers, including Samsung Electronics Co., have been penalized for 353 million yuan (US$56.6 million), the commission said

These achievements demonstrate our strong commitment and determination to control the price monopoly trend in the country, it also said.