Main Responsibilities

As the national functional department in charge of market supervision and market administrative law enforcement, the industrial and commercial administration agencies have the main responsibilities assigned by the state to:

1. Research Formulate guidelines, policies and relevant laws and regulations for industrial and commercial administration, formulate and promulgate rules and regulations for industrial and commercial administration.

2. In charge of the registration of national industrial and commercial enterprises and public institutions, social groups and individual citizens engaged in production and business activities, issue relevant certificates and licenses, and confirm their corporate legal person qualifications or legal business status in accordance with the law. Supervise and inspect the registration behavior of registration units in accordance with the law. The name of the registered unit shall be determined in accordance with the law.

3. Supervise and inspect the trading activities of market entities in accordance with the law, and investigate and deal with cases of monopoly and unfair competition, infringement of consumer rights and other illegal and illegal market transactions. Organize and carry out nationwide market supervision and administrative law enforcement activities in accordance with the law or with authorization from the State Council.

4. Supervise and manage economic contracts in accordance with the law and guide the work of contract arbitration institutions.

5. Implement unified registration and management of domestic and foreign trademark applications in accordance with the law, identify well-known trademarks, investigate and deal with trademark infringements, protect the exclusive rights of registered trademarks, recognize trademark agencies and guide their work. Make final decisions or rulings on trademark review cases in accordance with the law.

6. Supervise and manage consumer goods markets and production means markets, and participate in the supervision and management of production factor markets and futures markets such as finance, labor, real estate, technology, and information. Participate in the cultivation and development of the market system, participate in demonstration and planning of the national market layout, and carry out registration and statistical work of various trading markets.

7. Supervise and manage individual industrial and commercial households, individual partnerships and private enterprises in accordance with the law, standardize their business behavior, and guide the healthy development of the individual and private economy. Supervise and manage advertising releases and advertising business activities in accordance with the law. Guide the development of the advertising industry. Complete other matters assigned by the State Council.

The above responsibilities can be summarized as: corporate legal person registration management; individual and private economic management; market supervision and management; trademark supervision and management; advertising supervision and management; economic contract management; and fair trade law enforcement.

The State Administration for Industry and Commerce is responsible for organizing, guiding, and coordinating the national industrial and commercial administration work; the provincial, autonomous region, and municipality administrative bureaus for industry and commerce are functional agencies of the people’s governments at the same level, responsible for organizing, guiding, and coordinating this administrative work The industrial and commercial administrative work within the jurisdiction is responsible for and reports to the people's government at the same level, and its business work is subject to the supervision and guidance of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce.

City (including prefecture, state, the same below), county (including county-level cities, municipal districts, autonomous counties, banners, autonomous banners, mining areas, forest areas, special zones, the same below) industrial and commercial administration bureaus, It is a functional agency of the people's government at the same level. It is responsible for the industrial and commercial administration within its administrative jurisdiction. It is responsible and reports to the people's government at the same level and the higher-level industrial and commercial administration. Its business work accepts the guidance of the higher-level industrial and commercial administration.

For the above content, refer to Baidu Encyclopedia - Industrial and Commercial Administration