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Powerful growing market for Internet Commerce of the PRC is not supported by law, and the existing law on consumer rights do not correspond to reality, transmits Visitchina.ru . So Chinese lawmakers began working on the amendment and improvement of the law on commerce on the Internet.
«Online shops are different from traditional shopping centers, here the particular choice of goods, — Said Li Shishi, director of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC deputies. — For example, if online shopping is not possible to determine the authenticity of the goods, which is why often suffer susceptible to advertising buyers » . The current law is now in China on the Protection of Consumer Rights was adopted in 1993 there are no provisions about Internet commerce. Especially since, as stressed by Lee, in the past two decades, China has changed the structure and concept of consumption.
Among the amendments to the seller\’s obligation to the online store to confirm the authenticity of the goods, as well as providing the client with necessary information about it. The bill also guarantees the right of customers to unilaterally terminate the contract of sale and return the item within seven days. In addition, customers can expect to be compensated by an electronic trading platform, if the seller ceases to use it — will close or move to a new one.