Draft would combine business, food safety

A State-level administrator to regulate markets and oversee business operations, conduct antitrust investigations and ensure food and drug safety was proposed in a draft plan submitted to the national legislature for deliberation on Tuesday.

Functions of the existing State Administration for Industry and Commerce; General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine; and China Food and Drug Administration would be combined, and those bodies would be dismantled.

The plan was submitted by the State Council during the ongoing session of the 13th National People's Congress.