Legal experts and industry executives expect Beijing to follow up recent anti-trust enforcement against two telecoms operators with similar measures in other industries, the Financial Times reported. Some speculate that companies in the petrochemical and technology industries may now be targeted by regulators; complaints have frequently been raised against the likes of Baidu (BIDU.NASDAQ), Tencent (700.HK), Qihoo (QIHU.NYSE) and Kingsoft (3888.HK). The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the country’s economic planner, surprised many with its announcement on November 9 that the organization’s price supervision and anti-monopoly bureau was investigating China Telecom (CHA.NYSE, 0728.HKG) and China Unicom (CHU.NYSE, 0762.HKG) for alleged anti-competitive behavior in the broadband market. Many in China’s legal industry had previously thought that the anti-monopoly law, introduced in 2007, would only be enforced on M&A activity in order to block foreign takeovers; the new investigations raise the possibility that regulators could target large state-owned enterprises as well.