The full name of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau is the Industrial and Commercial Administration Bureau, which mainly has the following responsibilities.

(1) Responsible for the work related to market supervision and administration and administrative law enforcement, drafting relevant draft laws and regulations, and formulating industrial and commercial administrative regulations and policies.

(2) Responsible for the registration, supervision and management of market entities such as various enterprises, farmers' professional cooperatives, units and individuals engaged in business activities, and permanent representative offices of foreign (regional) enterprises, and responsible for investigation and punishment according to law Liability for operating without a license.

(3) Be responsible for regulating and maintaining the order of various market operations in accordance with the law, and be responsible for supervising and managing market transactions and online commodity transactions and related services.

(4) Responsible for supervising and managing the quality of goods in the circulation field, organizing and carrying out consumer rights protection work in the service field, investigating and punishing illegal activities such as counterfeiting and shoddy products according to the division of labor, and guiding consumer consultation, complaints, report acceptance, processing and network System construction and other work to protect the legitimate rights and interests of operators and consumers.

(5) Be responsible for investigating and handling illegal direct selling and pyramid selling cases, and supervise and manage direct selling enterprises, direct sellers and their direct selling activities in accordance with the law.

(6) 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 for price monopoly behaviors). Investigate and deal with unfair competition, commercial bribery, smuggling and other economic violations in accordance with the law.

(7) Responsible for supervising and managing brokers, brokerage institutions and brokerage activities in accordance with the law.

(8) Implement contract administrative supervision and management in accordance with the law, be responsible for managing the registration of chattel mortgages, organize, supervise and manage auctions, and be responsible for investigating and punishing contract fraud and other illegal activities in accordance with the law.

(9) Guide the development of the advertising industry and be responsible for the supervision and management of advertising activities.

(10) Responsible for trademark registration and management, protecting trademark exclusive rights and investigating trademark infringements in accordance with the law, handling trademark disputes, and strengthening the identification and protection of well-known trademarks. Responsible for the registration, filing and protection of special signs and official signs.

(11) Organize and guide the credit classification management of enterprises, individual industrial and commercial households, and commodity trading markets, research and analyze and publish basic registration information of market entities, trademark registration information, etc. in accordance with the law, to provide government decision-making and the public with Information Services.

(12) Responsible for the service, supervision and management of the business activities of individual industrial and commercial households and private enterprises.

(13) Carry out international cooperation and exchanges in industrial and commercial administration.

(14) Lead the national industrial and commercial administrative work.

(15) Undertake other matters assigned by the State Council.

Extended information:

In March 2018, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce was no longer retained and the State Administration for Market Regulation was established.

In March 2018, according to the institutional reform plan of the State Council approved by the first session of the 13th National People’s Congress, the plan proposed to transfer the responsibilities of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce to the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine. The responsibilities of the State Food and Drug Administration, the price supervision and inspection and anti-monopoly law enforcement responsibilities of the National Development and Reform Commission, the anti-monopoly law enforcement on concentration of undertakings of the Ministry of Commerce and the Office of the Anti-Monopoly Commission of the State Council were integrated to form a national market supervision The General Administration, as an agency directly under the State Council.

Establish the National Medical Products Administration, which will be managed by the State Administration for Market Regulation. Market supervision implements hierarchical management. Drug supervision agencies are only set up at the provincial level. Supervision of drug operations and sales is uniformly undertaken by city and county market supervision departments.

The entry-exit inspection and quarantine management responsibilities and teams of the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine will be transferred to the General Administration of Customs. The Food Safety Committee of the State Council and the Anti-Monopoly Committee of the State Council will be retained, and the specific work will be undertaken by the State Administration for Market Regulation. The responsibilities of the National Certification and Accreditation Administration and the National Standardization Administration are transferred to the State Administration for Market Regulation, and the brands are retained externally.

The State Intellectual Property Office will be reorganized and managed by the State Administration for Market Regulation.

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