The Shanghai Administration for Industry and Commerce is an agency directly under the municipal government in charge of market supervision and management of the city and performs administrative law enforcement functions. Its main responsibilities are:

(1) Implementation of relevant industrial and commercial administration Management of laws, regulations, rules, guidelines, and policies; research and draft local regulations, draft regulations, and policies on industrial and commercial administration, and organize the implementation of relevant local regulations, regulations, and policies.

(2) Responsible for the registration of market entities such as industrial and commercial enterprises, farmers' professional cooperatives, units and individuals engaged in business activities, and permanent representative offices of foreign (regional) enterprises, approving names in accordance with the law, and confirming market operations Subject qualifications, issue business licenses, and supervise and manage their registration matters and business activities; take the lead in investigating and banning unlicensed operations in accordance with the law.

(3) Responsible for investigating and handling illegal direct selling and pyramid selling cases, supervising and managing direct selling enterprises, direct sellers and their direct selling activities in accordance with the law.

(4) Responsible for the supervision, management and administrative law enforcement of the market economic order in this city; strengthen market monitoring, early warning and information guidance; assume the responsibility of regulating and maintaining the order of various market operations in accordance with the law, and be responsible for supervising and managing the network Commodity trading and related services; authorized by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, responsible for anti-monopoly law enforcement in the areas of monopoly agreements, abuse of market dominance, and abuse of administrative power to eliminate and restrict competition (except price monopoly behavior); investigate and deal with unfair competition, commercial bribery, and smuggling in accordance with the law Economic illegal activities such as smuggling.

(5) Organize and carry out consumer rights protection in relevant service fields; investigate and deal with illegal activities such as counterfeiting and shoddy products according to division of labor; accept consumer consultations, complaints, and reports, and guide consumer rights protection agencies and organizations at all levels in the system to carry out their work; establish And improve the consumer rights protection system to protect the legitimate rights and interests of operators and consumers; organize the investigation and handling of cases that infringe on consumer rights.

(6) Supervise and manage various consumer goods markets and production means markets in accordance with the law, participate in the supervision and management of production factor markets, and carry out classified supervision of market credit.

(7) Investigate and deal with trademark infringements in accordance with the law, protect the exclusive rights to registered trademarks, supervise and manage the use and printing of trademarks; supervise and guide trademark agencies; be responsible for the acceptance and review of applications for well-known trademark recognition; be responsible for Shanghai Municipal Affairs Bureau Recognition and management of famous trademarks; responsible for the management and protection of special signs and official signs.

(8) Guide the development of the advertising industry, formulate the city’s advertising industry development plan and advertising industry professional standards; supervise and manage advertising release and advertising business activities in accordance with the law, and guide advertising review agencies and advertising monitoring agencies to carry out advertising content review Review monitoring efforts.

(9) Organize and implement the administrative supervision of contracts, and work with industry management departments and industry organizations to formulate model contract texts; supervise and manage the standard terms of consumer contracts; carry out administrative mediation of contract disputes; investigate and punish those who use contracts to engage in illegal activities Behavior.

(10) Supervise and manage brokers, brokerage institutions, brokerage activities and related intermediary service agencies; register and inspect the practice of brokers in accordance with the law.

(11) Implement the registration of chattel mortgages and supervise and manage auctions.

(12) Supervise, manage and comprehensively protect company names, unique names, packaging, decoration, trade secrets, trademarks, etc. of well-known products in accordance with the law.

(13) Guide the work of relevant social groups in the industrial and commercial fields.

(14) Responsible for the acceptance of administrative reconsideration and response to administrative litigation.

(15) Undertake other matters assigned by the municipal government.