What does the Bureau of Commerce do?

1. Formulate development strategies and policies for domestic and international trade and international economic cooperation, draft laws and regulations on domestic and international trade, foreign investment, foreign aid, foreign investment and foreign economic cooperation, formulate departmental regulations, put forward opinions on the connection between China's economic and trade laws and regulations and international economic and trade treaties and agreements, study the development trend of economic globalization, regional economic cooperation, modern circulation mode and circulation system reform, and make suggestions.

2. Responsible for promoting the structural adjustment of circulation industry, guiding the reform of circulation enterprises, business services and community business development, putting forward policy suggestions to promote the development of small and medium-sized commercial enterprises, and promoting the development of modern circulation modes such as circulation standardization and chain operation, commercial franchising, logistics and distribution, and e-commerce.

3. Formulate domestic trade development plans, promote the development of urban and rural markets, study and put forward policies to guide domestic and foreign funds to invest in the construction of market system, guide the wholesale market planning of bulk products, the planning of urban commercial outlets and the construction of commercial system, promote the construction of rural market system, and organize the implementation of rural modern circulation network projects. ?

4. Take the lead in coordinating and rectifying and standardizing the market economic order, formulate policies to standardize the market operation and circulation order, promote credit construction in the business field, guide commercial credit sales, establish a market credit service platform, and supervise and manage the special circulation industry in accordance with relevant regulations.

5. Responsible for organizing the implementation of market regulation of important consumer goods and management of circulation of important means of production, establishing and improving the emergency management mechanism of market supply of daily necessities, monitoring and analyzing market operation, commodity supply and demand, investigating and analyzing commodity price information, making prediction and early warning and information guidance, taking charge of reserve management and market regulation of important consumer goods according to the division of labor, and supervising and managing the circulation of refined oil according to relevant regulations. ?

Extended data:

The Bureau of Commerce is responsible for foreign economic cooperation, formulating and implementing policies for foreign economic cooperation, managing and supervising foreign contracted projects and foreign labor cooperation according to law, formulating policies for overseas employment of China citizens, taking the lead in protecting the rights and interests of overseas laborers and overseas employees, formulating measures and specific policies for overseas investment, and approving domestic enterprises to invest and set up enterprises (except financial enterprises) overseas according to law.

The Bureau of Commerce is responsible for foreign aid work, formulating and implementing foreign aid policies and programs, promoting the reform of foreign aid methods, formulating foreign aid plans, determining foreign aid projects and organizing their implementation, managing the use of funds with the nature of government aid, and managing multilateral and bilateral development cooperation businesses such as free aid and grants to China (excluding grants from foreign governments and international financial organizations under financial cooperation).

The Bureau of Commerce takes the lead in formulating and implementing economic and trade plans and policies for Hong Kong, Macao Special Administrative Regions and Taiwan Province Province, conducts economic and trade consultations with relevant departments of Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions and authorized institutions of Taiwan Province Province, signs relevant documents, is responsible for the business liaison mechanism between the mainland and Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions, organizes and implements direct trade with Taiwan, and handles Taiwan-related issues in multilateral and bilateral economic and trade fields.

The Bureau of Commerce conducts anti-monopoly review on the concentration behavior of operators according to law, guides enterprises to deal with foreign anti-monopoly, and conducts multi-bilateral competition policy exchanges and cooperation.

The Bureau of Commerce guides the relevant work of the China delegation to the World Trade Organization, the economic and trade representative offices to the United Nations and relevant international organizations, and foreign economic and trade institutions, and is responsible for economic and trade business guidance, team building and personnel selection; Contact international multilateral economic and trade institutions in China and foreign public service institutions in China.

References:

Ministry of Commerce of People's Republic of China (PRC)-Main responsibilities