What are the responsibilities of the Ministry of Commerce or the Bureau of Commerce?

Main responsibilities of the Ministry of Commerce \ x0d \ x0d \ (1) To formulate development strategies and policies for domestic and foreign trade and international economic cooperation, draft laws and regulations on domestic and foreign trade, foreign investment, foreign aid, foreign investment and foreign economic cooperation, formulate departmental rules and regulations, put forward opinions on the convergence of China's economic and trade laws and regulations with 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. \x0d\\x0d\ (II) Responsible for promoting the structural adjustment of the 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. \x0d\\x0d\ (3) Formulate domestic trade development plans, promote the development of urban and rural markets, study and put forward policies to guide the construction of domestic and foreign capital investment 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. \ x0d \ x0d \ (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 the credit construction in the commercial field, guide the commercial credit sales, establish a market credit service platform, and supervise and manage the special circulation industry in accordance with relevant regulations. \ x0d \ x0d \ (5) Undertaking the responsibility of organizing and implementing the market regulation of important consumer goods and the circulation management of important means of production, establishing and improving the emergency management mechanism of market supply of daily necessities, monitoring and analyzing market operation and commodity supply and demand, investigating and analyzing commodity price information, making prediction and early warning and information guidance, taking charge of the 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. \ x0d \ x0d \ (6) To study and formulate development plans, policies and relevant standards for the pharmaceutical circulation industry, promote the structural adjustment of the pharmaceutical circulation industry, guide the reform of pharmaceutical circulation enterprises, and promote the development of modern pharmaceutical circulation methods. \x0d\\x0d\ (7) To be responsible for formulating measures for the administration of import and export commodities and processing trade and the catalogue of commodities and technologies under import and export administration, formulating policies and measures to promote the transformation of foreign trade growth mode, organizing the implementation of the total import and export plan of important industrial products, raw materials and important agricultural products, coordinating large quantities of import and export commodities with relevant departments, and guiding trade promotion activities and the construction of foreign trade promotion system. \ \x0d\\x0d\ (8 8) Formulate and implement foreign technology trade, export control and trade policies, encourage the import and export of technologies and complete sets of equipment, promote the standardization of import and export trade, supervise the national technology import, equipment import and technology export restrictions according to law, and issue import and export licenses related to national security such as non-proliferation according to law. \x0d\\x0d\ (9) Take the lead in drawing up the development plan of service trade and carrying out relevant work, formulate plans and policies for promoting the development of service export and service outsourcing together with relevant departments and organize their implementation, so as to promote the construction of service outsourcing platform. \ x0d \ x0d \ (10) Formulate China's multi-bilateral (including regional and free trade zones) economic and trade cooperation strategies and policies, take the lead in conducting multi-bilateral economic and trade negotiations with foreign countries, coordinate negotiation opinions, sign relevant documents and supervise implementation, establish multi-bilateral intergovernmental economic and trade contact mechanisms and organize relevant work, handle important matters in economic and trade relations between countries (regions), and manage economic and trade activities with countries that have not established diplomatic relations. According to the authorization, handle the relationship with the World Trade Organization on behalf of the China Municipal Government, take the lead in China's negotiation and trade policy review, dispute settlement, notification and consultation under the framework of the World Trade Organization, and be responsible for the coordination of foreign trade and economic cooperation. \ x0d \ x0d \ (1 1) undertakes the responsibility of organizing and coordinating anti-dumping, countervailing, safeguard measures and other import and export fair trade-related work, establishes an early warning mechanism for import and export fair trade, conducts foreign trade investigations and industrial injury investigations according to law, and guides and coordinates industrial safety responses and foreign responses to anti-dumping, countervailing and safeguard measures of China's export products. \x0d\\x0d\ (12) Provide macro guidance to foreign investment throughout the country, formulate foreign investment policies and reform plans and organize their implementation, examine and approve the establishment and change of foreign-invested enterprises according to law, examine and approve major changes in the contract articles of association and special provisions of laws for major foreign-invested projects, supervise and inspect the implementation of relevant laws, regulations and contract articles of association by foreign-invested enterprises according to law, and coordinate and solve related problems. Guide foreign-invested enterprises to attract investment and examine and approve, standardize foreign investment activities, and guide relevant work in national economic and technological development zones, Suzhou Industrial Park and border economic cooperation zones. \x0d\\x0d\ (XIII) Responsible for foreign economic cooperation, formulate and implement foreign economic cooperation policies, manage and supervise foreign contracted projects and foreign labor cooperation according to law, formulate China citizens' overseas employment management policies, take the lead in protecting the rights and interests of overseas laborers and overseas employees, formulate overseas investment management measures and specific policies, and approve domestic enterprises to invest and set up enterprises (except financial enterprises) overseas according to law. \ x0d \ x0d \ (XIV) Be responsible for foreign aid work, formulate and implement foreign aid policies and programs, promote the reform of foreign aid methods, formulate foreign aid plans, determine foreign aid projects and organize their implementation, manage the use of funds with the nature of government aid, and manage development cooperation businesses such as multi-bilateral free aid and grants to China (excluding grants to China by foreign governments and international financial organizations under financial cooperation). \ x0d \ x0d \ (XV) Take the lead in formulating and implementing economic and trade plans and policies for Hong Kong, Macao Special Administrative Region and Taiwan Province Province, conduct economic and trade consultations with relevant departments of Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Region and authorized institutions in Taiwan Province Province, sign relevant documents, be responsible for the business liaison mechanism between the mainland and Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions, organize and implement direct trade with Taiwan, and handle Taiwan-related issues in multi-bilateral economic and trade fields. \ x0d \ x0d \ (XVI) Conduct anti-monopoly review on concentration behavior of business operators according to law, guide enterprises to deal with foreign anti-monopoly, and carry out multi-bilateral competition policy exchanges and cooperation. \x0d\\x0d\ (XVII) To guide the relevant work of China's delegation to the World Trade Organization, economic and trade representative offices to the United Nations and relevant international organizations, and economic and commercial institutions abroad, and be 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. \ x0d \ x0d \ (XVIII) To undertake other tasks assigned by the State Council.