The internal agencies of the Administration for Industry and Commerce include:

General Office, Regulation Department, Anti-Monopoly and Anti-Unfair Competition Law Enforcement Bureau, Direct Selling Supervision Bureau, Consumer Rights Protection Bureau, Market Regulation and Management Department, Enterprise Registration Bureau, Foreign-Invested Enterprise Registration Bureau, Advertising Supervision and Management Department, Individual and Private Economic Supervision and Management Department, Personnel Department, International Cooperation Department (Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Office), Party Committee of the Agency, Office of Retired Cadres, Trademark Bureau, Trademark Review and Adjudication Board, Discipline Inspection Team, and Supervision Bureau.

The Administration for Industry and Commerce is the government department in charge of market supervision and administrative law enforcement. According to the "Notice of the State Council on Institutional Establishment" (Guofa [2008] No. 11), the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (at the ministerial level) was established as an agency directly under the State Council.

In March 2018, at the fourth plenary session of the First Session of the Thirteenth National People’s Congress, according to the institutional reform plan of the State Council, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, and The State Food and Drug Administration established the State Administration for Market Regulation.

Extended information:

The main responsibilities are as follows:

1. Responsible for the relevant work of market supervision and management and administrative law enforcement, and drafting relevant draft laws and regulations , formulate 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 investigating and punishing illegal activities in accordance with the law. business responsibilities.

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 systems 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 price monopoly behavior). 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, and provide information services for government decision-making and the public. .

12. Responsible for the service and supervision 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 administration work.

15. Undertake other matters assigned by the State Council.

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