The E-Commerce Law was adopted on August 31, 2018 by the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People's Congress and will come into effect on January 1, 2019. The adoption of the law lays the basic legal framework for the development of e-commerce in China. It is particularly notable that the E-Commerce Law devotes considerable length to provide clear provisions on the obligations of e-commerce platform operators ("e-commerce platforms"), and to establish conduct that e-commerce platforms "shall" and "shall not" engage in,
