Major Duties:

(1) To implement the guidelines, policies and enforce the laws and rules related to the formulation of city planning and the implementation of the planning, the city survey, and archives of city construction; to study and draw up the drafts of local rules, regulations and policies related to the formulation of city planning and implementation of the planning, the city survey, and archives of city construction in the light of the actual circumstances in the Municipality, and organise the implementation of relevant rules, regulations and policies.
(2) To specifically organise the formulation of city overall planning, zoning planning, detailed planning of key areas and other directive planning of the municipal government; to comprehensively coordinate and balance other special plans; to direct districts and counties to formulate various plans within the limits of their authority; to examine and verify and approve all kinds of plans (including city design scheme) according to laws.
(3) To implement according to laws the systems of administration of the letters of suggestions on construction site selection, the construction land planning permit, and the construction project planning permit; to carry out supervision of the implementation of the planning after the construction project has been approved (including the administration of the change of the purpose of the building).
(4) To organise the formulation of this municipality’s relevant plans of outdoor advertising facilities, and participate in the examination and the approval of the erection of outdoor advertising; to coordinate the work of this Municipality’s demolition of illegal building.
(5) To be responsible for administration of city planning design and the archives of the construction; to organise, direct, coordinate and supervise the administrative law enforcement work in respect of city planning; to direct the formulation of survey and planning of cadastre; to be responsible for administration of qualification of city planning designing units and city surveyor units.
(6) To be responsible for the work of planning, organization and administration of the exhibition of citywide planning and construction of the city planning information system development.
(7) To be responsible for the work of the planning and administration of protection of historically and culturally renown city, historic appearance reserve area, historically and culturally renown town, excellent historic building and historic relics.
(8) To be responsible for the investigation of and research on such important issues as city development, city planning, and archives of city construction.
(9) To participate in formulation of medium term and long term plan and annual planning of social and economic development and city construction.
(10) To be responsible for propagandizing urban and rural planning knowledge and the organisation and administration of education and training relating to urban and rural planning; to be responsible for the administration of accreditation of technical titles of professional technician of the planning setup, the registration of qualification for practice and the vocational training for posts.
(11) To be responsible for acceptance and handling of administrative reconsideration application and responding to administrative actions.
(12) To lead, supervise and inspect the districts’and counties’city planning work; to manage the municipal survey administrative agencies and street name administrative agencies.
(13) To undertake the day-to-day work of the Municipal Planning Commission.
(14) To undertake other matters assigned by the Municipal Government.