The Guangdong Provincial Administration for Industry and Commerce was established in 1963. It is an agency directly under the Provincial People's Government in charge of market supervision and administrative law enforcement. Its main functions include the following two aspects: First, the industrial and commercial administration business, namely enterprise registration and supervision, standardized management and supervision of market operation order, supervision of commodity quality in the circulation field, protection of consumer rights and interests, trademark advertising and market contract supervision , investigation and punishment of illegal activities in the circulation field; second, administrative housekeeping, including completing the team building and clean government construction tasks of the province's industrial and commercial system, and vertically managing the human, financial and material management of the system.

At present, the Guangdong Provincial Industrial and Commercial System has 36,764 cadres and employees, and consists of 21 industrial and commercial bureaus at or above the prefecture level, 150 county (district) industrial and commercial bureaus, and 1,277 grassroots industrial and commercial offices.

The Provincial Administration for Industry and Commerce consists of offices (including the Party Committee Office), Personnel Department, Grassroots Education Department, Finance Department, Supervision Office, Regulations Department, Economic Inspection Department (Public Information Office), Consumer Protection Department, Foreign Investment Department 14 administrative offices, including the Business Administration Office, Market Contract Office, Trademark Office, Advertising Office, and Veteran Affairs Office; 2 administrative units directly under the Economic Inspection Corps and the Industrial and Commercial Branch; as well as the agency service center, information center, consumer committee, There are 7 public institutions including the Cadre Quality Education Center, Guangdong Trademark Office, Publicity and Education Service Center, and Ticketing Center; 5 associations including the Industry and Commerce Association, the Provincial Private Association, the Guangdong Trademark Association, the Advertising Association, and the Marketing Association. The Provincial Administration for Industry and Commerce has a civil servant establishment of 124, and the administrative units directly under it have an administrative establishment of 120, including public institutions, societies, and associations. There are actually 394 cadres and employees.