1. To study and formulate guidelines and policies on the administration of industry and commerce and organize the drafting of related laws and regulations; to enact and promulgate administrative provisions for industry and commerce.
2. To administer, according to law, the registration of various enterprises (including foreign-invested enterprises), organizations or individuals engaging in business activities as well as resident representative offices of foreign companies; to verify the names of registering institutions; to review, approve and issue business licenses, and supervise and administer accordingly.
3. To supervise the market competition behaviors, investigate into illegal economic practices including monopoly, unfair competition, smuggling, selling of smuggled goods, pyramid selling and disguised pyramid selling, and mete out corresponding penalties according to law.
4. To supervise market transactions, the quality of commodities in the circulation field; to investigate and penalize illegal behaviors such as distribution of fake and/or substandard goods, so as to protect the legitimate rights and interests of both entrepreneurs and consumers.
5. To carry out standard supervision and administration in accordance with law to ensure the order of business operations in various markets.
6. To regulate the operations of brokers and brokerage agencies according to law.
7. To regulate contract performance, administer the registration of movable collaterals and regulate auction behaviors; to investigate and penalize contract frauds and other illegal practices.
8. To supervise and administer advertising activities, investigate and penalize illegal practices.
9. To take charge of trademark registration and administration, protect exclusive use right of trademarks, investigate and penalize trademark infringements and reinforce certification and protection of well-known trademarks.
10. To regulate the business practices of self-employed, private partnerships and private enterprises.
11. To lead the nationwide administration of industry and commerce.
12. To carry out international cooperation and exchanges in respect of industrial and commercial administration.
13. To undertake other assignments designated by the State Council.

1. General Office
• Phone:010-88651309;Fax:010-88651120
•    To assist the SAIC top management in its daily work, take charge of the drafting of important documents, document archives, security and secrets protection, complaint correspondence, confidential work, information management and meeting organization; to undertake and coordinate comprehensive investigations and researches of the SAIC; to formulate and implement publicity/education plans; to administer the fiscal affairs and state-owned assets of the SAIC; to guide the systemic statistical and fiscal affairs and supervise the audits of directly affiliated institutions.
2. Trademark Office
• Phone:010-68052266;Fax:010-68013623
•   To study and formulate regulations and rules, as well as detailed measures and methods for trademark registration and administration; to take charge of the trademark registration for commodities, services, collective, certification and other trademarks, as well as their alteration, transfer, continuance and extension, re-certification and revocation; to handle arbitrations of trademark disputes; to revoke trademark registrations according to law; to investigate and punish trademark infringements and counterfeits and guide SAIC institutions in handling trademark cases and protection of trademark exclusive use rights; to assist in the handling of administrative reviews of trademark infringement cases; to take charge of document filing of trademark licensing agreements and administration of trademark printing; to verify and protect well-known trademarks according to law; to supervise and administer trademark agencies; to be responsible for the collection of trademark information and the building and management of trademark archives; to organize the implementation of international trademark treaties and agreements in China and conduct international trademark exchange and cooperation.
3. Department of Foreign Affairs
• Phone:010-88650000;Fax:010-88651120
•    To carry out international cooperation and exchanges in the field of administration of industry and commerce, and conduct importation of international intelligence; to organize overseas training programs and take charge of foreign affairs of the SAIC.
4. Department of Personnel
• Phone:010-88651309;Fax:010-88651120
•    To administer the personnel affairs and department establishments of the SAIC and directly affiliated institutions; to assist the top management of SAIC to jointly supervise leading teams of provincial AICs in collaboration with local CPC Committees and organization departments; to formulate and implement education and training programs for the SAIC institutions; to conduct awarding work; to guide the building of organizations and forces of the SAIC institutions.
5. Department for Regulation and Management of Privat
• Phone:010-88650811;Fax:010-68028439
•    To investigate and research on the development and administration of self-employed and private business economy, and study and formulate regulations and rules, as well as detailed measures and methods for the administration of self-employed and private business economy; to guide the registration of self-employed, private partnership businesses and private enterprises, as well as their supervision and administration; to guide associations of self-employed businesses and associations of private enterprises in their operations.
6. Department of Advertising Regulation and Managemen
• Phone:010-88650000;Fax:010-88651120
•   To study and formulate regulations and rules, as well as detailed measures and methods for the supervision and administration of advertising operations; to conduct supervision and administration on release of advertisements and advertising activities; to conduct review and approval for advertising business, and investigate and penalize fraudulent advertising according to law; to guide the advertising review and approval institutions and advertising associations.
7. Registration Bureau of Foreign-invested Enterprise
• Phone:010-88650000;Fax:010-88651120
•    To study and formulate regulations and rules, as well as detailed measures and methods for the registration of foreign-invested enterprises; to administer the registration of foreign-invested enterprises and resident representative offices of the foreign enterprises, verify and approve their business names; to review, approve and issue business certificates and licenses to the foreign-invested enterprises and resident representative offices of the foreign enterprise within its jurisdiction; to supervise and inspect other registration behaviors; to guide SAIC institutions in their supervision and administration of enterprise registration.
8. Enterprise Registration Bureau
• Phone:010-88650413;Fax:010-88650419
•   To study and formulate regulations and rules, as well as detailed measures and methods for enterprise registrations; to administer the enterprise registration, verify and approve business names; to review, approve and issue business licenses to enterprises and other business units within its jurisdiction, and supervise and inspect registration behavior; to guide the SAIC institutions in their supervision and administration of enterprise registration.
9. Department of Market Regulation
• Phone:010-88650628;Fax:010-68028481
•   To study and formulate regulations and rules, as well as detailed measures and methods for the normalization of market order; to organize normal administration of business order of various markets, conduct contract performance regulation, administer the registration of movable collaterals, regulate auction behaviors, and investigate and penalize contract fraud and other illegal behaviors; to guide the dedicated market rectifications.
10. Consumer Protection Bureau
• Phone:010-88650000;Fax:010-88651120
•   To study and formulate regulations and rules, as well as detailed measures and methods for the protection of consumers’ rights and interests, and organize implementation accordingly; to investigate and penalize serious infringements on consumers’ legitimate rights and interests; to supervise the quality of commodities in the circulation market, investigate and penalize behaviors of selling fake and/or substandard goods.
11. Direct Selling Regulation Bureau
• Phone:010-88650000;Fax:010-88651120
•    To study and formulate regulations and rules, as well as measures and methods on regulating direct selling and prohibiting pyramid selling; to regulate and administer direct selling enterprises and their direct selling reps, as well as their direct selling behaviors according to assigned responsibilities and provisions of law; to investigate and punish serious cases of illegal direct selling and pyramid selling; to guide the SAIC institutions in regulating direct selling and fighting against pyramid selling.
12. Anti-Monopoly and Anti-Unfair Competition Bureau
• Phone:010-88650008;Fax:010-88651120
•   To study and enact rules, regulations as well as detailed measures and methods for preventing monopoly and unfair competition; to investigate and penalize monopoly, unfair competition, smuggling, and selling of smuggled goods pyramid selling and disguised pyramid selling, and other violation cases of economic laws and regulations.
13. Department of Law
• Phone:010-68012791;Fax:010-68028433
•     To formulate legislation programs of the industrial and commercial administration, organize and undertake the drafting, coordination and promulgation of relevant rules and regulations; to conduct supervision and hearings on law enforcement of industrial and commercial administration, undertake and participate in administrative review, response to litigations and indemnities; to organize law publicity and training and guide legal governance in the SAIC institutions.
14. Trademark Appeal Board
• Phone:010-68301475;
•    1. To handle the applications for review of rejection by Trademark Office to trademark registration applications and give review decisions. 2. To handle review applications against the Trademark Office ruling on trademark disputes and give review decisions. 3. To handle review applications against the Trademark Office’s decision on revoking trademark registrations and give review decisions. 4. To handle the applications of parties concerned for revoking registered trademarks according to provisions of Clause 41 of Trademark Law and make related arbitrations. To handle the disputes over trademarks.