The major duties are:

1. To implement the guidelines and policies and enforce the laws, rules and regulations related to the development of communications trade; to study and draw up the drafts of local rules and regulations on communications trade and formulate relevant policies in the light of the actual circumstances in this Municipality, and organize the implementation of relevant rules, regulations, and policies.

2. To be responsible for the formulation of the strategy of communications development, and draw up the communications professional planning and the communications medium-term and long-term planning according to this Municipality’s social economic development and the overall city-planning , and organize the implementation of such planning; to take charge of and coordinate the planning and construction of the public traffic hub station, inland port, inland channel, road passenger and cargo transport site and station, urban transport site and station, etc.

3. To be responsible for drawing up the annual supply plans and the plans of key basic construction and technology reform, science and technology development, and new product development; to supervise the implementation of such plans and to be responsible for coordinate the administration.

4. To be responsible for the work of the reform of the communications trade; to be responsible for the building up and administration of the communications and transportation market; to study and draw up the rules of transactions, administration system and measures of management of the Municipality’s communications and transportation market; to be responsible for the construction and administration of the passenger and cargo transportation market.

5. To study and put forward the policies relevant to the Municipality’s communications trade; to participate in the formulation of economic policies and regulation and control measures relevant to the communications trade；to bring forward the price and charge standards of the communications trade administrated by the Municipality, and organize the implementation of such price and charge standards when approved; to organize the implementation of the collection and administration of the income from the payment of stipulated fees.

6. To organize, direct, coordinate and supervise the administrative laws enforcement in the communications trade; to be responsible for the examination and verification and examination and approval on the traffic enterprises’operation qualification, newly-added transport capacity and disposition of route resources, and the administration of invitation and tender of bid; to be responsible for the trade administration of international marine transportation, coastal transportation and Yangtze River transportation belonging to the administration authority of the local government.

7. To study and formulate the science and technology advancement planning and policies, services and technology of communications trade; to organize the research and development of major science and technology items, new products and new technology, and the model selection, development, quality examination and approval of technical equipment of communications trade; to organize the implementation of national transportation technology standards and norms of the trade, and draft the relevant local transportation technology standards and norms of the trade.

8．To be responsible for organizing and coordinating the building of the communications set of traffic facilities of this Municipality (not including the road traffic administration facilities; to conduct full course administration of the Municipal government's items of specific welfare of the communications trade; to be responsible to and coordinate the construction administration of relevant infrastructure projects of the communications trade, like inland channel, a hub station for passenger and cargo transportation; to comment on newly-built, rebuilt or extended projects within the scope of planning control area of rail communication.

9. To be responsible for the supervisory administration of the quality of safety of the communications trade, and to cooperate in dealing with the major contingences, disastrous accidents , and grieve in provision and service accidents; to enhance the comprehensive administration of the work of provision and service of communications trade; to formulate and organize the implementation of the standards of the normal service of the communications trade; to organize the appraisal, supervision, and inspection of the quality of the communications products.

10. To be responsible for the organization and coordination of the transportation of foreign trade, key, urgent and special goods and materials, and the transportation of goods and materials of important construction projects; to be responsible for the organization and coordination of the special passenger transport task; to be responsible for the coordination and promotion of the comprehensive transport works of rough transport, international container multimodal through transport and so on; to be responsible for the comprehensive coordination of the urban and external communications.

11. To examine and approve, examine and verify the project of Sino-foreign equity joint venture, Sino-foreign cooperative introduction of technology, and introduction of equipment of the communications trade according to relevant provisional and jointly with relevant departments; to undertake jointly with relevant departments exchange activities that involve the communications trade with foreign governments and international organizations.

12. To be responsible for acceptance and handling of administrative reconsideration applications and response to administrative actions.

13. To undertake other matters assigned by the Municipal Government.