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		</div><p>Chinese regulators have announced an anti-monopoly investigation of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, stepping up official efforts to tighten control over the country’s fast-growing tech industries.</p>
<p>The market regulator said it was looking into Alibaba’s policy of “choose one of two”, which requires business partners to avoid dealing with competitors.</p>
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<p>Chinese leaders have previously said stepping up anti-monopoly enforcement will be an economic priority in the coming year.</p>
<p>They appear to be especially concerned about tightening control over Alibaba and other dominant internet companies that are expanding into finance, health care and other businesses.</p>
<p>Alibaba’s founder Jack Ma is China’s richest entrepreneur and one of the country’s best-known figures.</p>
<p>Regulators earlier forced the suspension of the stock market debut of Ant Group, an online finance platform spun off from Alibaba.</p>
<p>A separate announcement on Thursday said officials of Ant had been summoned to meet with regulators.</p>
<p>Alibaba, the world’s biggest e-commerce company by total sales volume, and another company were fined in mid-December for failing to apply for official approval before proceeding with some acquisitions.</p>
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