China’s Guangdong signs safety pacts with takeaway platforms

Umesh Ellichipuram

Mon, June 15, 2026 astatine 4:28 AM CDT 1 min read

Market supervision authorities successful China's Guangdong state reached co-governance arrangements with cardinal transportation platforms to boost oversight of the fast-growing online catering sector.

According to a China Daily report, the authorities signed the practice agreements with companies specified arsenic Meituan, Taobao Flash Shopping and JD Takeaway.

The determination follows the rollout of provincial regulations connected the supervision and medication of nutrient information responsibilities of catering work providers, which became effectual connected 1 June.

In summation to the ceremonial agreements with regulators, the 3 platforms person jointly signed a "self-regulatory convention" connected the improvement and nutrient information successful the province's online catering manufacture to reenforce shared governance successful the sector.

A cardinal measurement is the constitution of a shared blacklist strategy crossed the 3 platforms.

Merchants recovered to person committed superior nutrient information breaches and removed from 1 work volition besides beryllium blocked by the different two.

This mechanics aims to forestall "non-compliant" businesses from returning to the marketplace by shifting to a antithetic platform.

The practice model besides encourages catering merchants to unfastened live-streamed room feeds, truthful that customers tin ticker the room video successful existent clip erstwhile making orders.

According to the agreements, the purpose is to determination the manufacture distant from passive compliance towards proactive governance.

Delivery workers and consumers are besides incorporated into the oversight structure. Their reports connected nutrient information problems volition beryllium transmitted straight to the applicable regulatory bodies, nether the caller arrangements.

In April, China's State Administration for Market Regulation fined 7 e-commerce platforms a full of 3.6bn yuan ($527.3m) implicit food transportation information violations.