China Names Gan Lin Top Trust Buster Amid Internet Crackdown

What’s new: China’s State Council, the cabinet, appointed Gan Lin as the new head of the country’s anti-monopoly bureau under the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of China said Monday on its website.

Gan, 58, was deputy minister of the SAMR since 2011, in charge of anti-monopoly enforcement, price inspection and anti-unfair competition supervision. She also has served as a member and secretary-general of the Anti-Monopoly Commission of the State Council since 2018.