China’s “Anti-Food Waste Law” was passed on the 29th, making the “food broadcasters” and “appetite eaters” on webcasts and audio-visual platforms the primary targets of the Chinese Communist Party authorities under this wave of regulation. Photo: Taken from CCTV channel
The Standing Committee of China’s 13th National People’s Congress voted on 29th to adopt the “Anti-Food Waste Law”, which proposes that meals at official events should not exceed the prescribed standard and rewards consumers who respond to the “CD-ROM action”; businesses can charge a discretionary fee for disposal of leftover food to those who order wasteful food, and consumers will be fined if they are misled to over-order for businesses. Live webcast and audio-visual platform “eating” and “big appetite” have also become the primary target of the Chinese Communist Party authorities under this wave of regulation, and those who produce and disseminate such audio-visual programs are likely to be fined in the future.
The fines are up to RMB 50,000 (about NTD 215,000) for wasteful food production and operators, and up to RMB 10,000 (about NTD 43,000) for inducing and misleading consumers to order more food.
Another for radio stations, television stations, Internet audio-visual platforms to produce, publish, disseminate the promotion of eating broadcast, overeating (appetite king) program or audio-visual works will be ordered to correct, when the refusal to correct or serious circumstances can be fined more than 10,000 yuan, less than 100,000 yuan, or even suspension of business rectification, be held legally responsible.
Previously, Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping ordered in August last year to stop wasteful behavior, and many places cooperated with the launch of the “CD-ROM action”, the official media CCTV has repeatedly pointed out the eating broadcast, the appetite king and other audio-visual programs, which are considered to have serious food waste problems, and major audio-visual platforms then took action to stop. Now that the “Anti-Food Waste Law” legislation has been passed, this type of program has been restrained, and may become extinct after the recent announcement of the law.
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