Strictly speaking, the Market Supervision Administration should be called the Market Supervision Administration. Its regulatory responsibilities cover the original industrial and commercial administration, quality and technical supervision, intellectual property (trademarks, patents, copyrights), prices, and catering supervision. (Other areas are the functions of the Food and Drug Administration or the Health Bureau), alcohol product supervision and other departmental responsibilities.

Legal basis: 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 that the responsibilities of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce and the national quality supervision The responsibilities of the General Administration of 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 and established. The State Administration for Market Regulation is an agency directly under the State Council.