The State Administration for Industry and Commerce is one of the 18 directly affiliated institutions in the State Council, which is in charge of market supervision and management and related administrative law enforcement. (State administrative organs, of course)

Its main responsibilities are:

1. To study and formulate the principles and policies of industrial and commercial administration, organize the drafting of relevant laws and regulations, and formulate and promulgate industrial and commercial administrative regulations.

2. Organize and manage the registration of all kinds of enterprises (including foreign-invested enterprises), units and individuals engaged in business activities and resident representative offices of foreign (regional) enterprises according to law, verify the name of registered units, examine and approve, issue relevant licenses and implement supervision and management.

third, organize and supervise market competition according to law, and investigate and deal with economic violations such as monopoly, unfair competition, smuggling, pyramid selling and disguised pyramid selling.

iv. organize and supervise market transactions according to law, organize and supervise the quality of commodities in the circulation field, investigate and deal with illegal acts such as counterfeiting, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of operators and consumers.

5. Standardize management and supervision of various market operation orders according to law.

VI. Organize the supervision of brokers and brokerage institutions according to law.

VII. Organize and implement contract administrative supervision according to law, organize and manage the registration of chattel collateral, organize and supervise auction behavior, and investigate and deal with illegal acts such as contract fraud.

VIII. Supervise and manage advertisements according to law, and investigate and deal with illegal acts.

IX. Be responsible for trademark registration and trademark management, protect the exclusive right to use trademarks, organize the investigation and punishment of trademark infringement, and strengthen the certification and protection of well-known trademarks.

X. Organize and supervise the business activities of individual industrial and commercial households, individual partnerships and private enterprises according to law.

Xi. leading the national industrial and commercial administration.

XII. Carry out international cooperation and exchanges in industrial and commercial administration.

XIII. To undertake other tasks assigned by the State Council.