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Shanghai Municipal Administration of Industry and Commerce

The Major Duties are:

1. To implement the guidelines, policies and laws, rules and regulations of the State related to the administration of industry and commerce; to study and draw up the drafts of local regulations, rules and policies concerning the administration of industry and commerce in the light of the actual circumstances of this Municipality, and organize the implementation of relevant regulations, rules and policies.
2. To be in charge of the work of registration of industrial and commercial enterprises and units engaged in operational activities and individual persons, to check and ratify the names of enterprises to be registered according to law, to affirm operational qualifications, to approve and issue the business licenses, and to exercise the supervision and administration of their registration matters and operational activities.
3. To organize the supervision and administration of market transaction acts; to investigate and punish the acts such as monopolies, unfair competitions, commercial frauds and smuggling and traffic in smuggle goods in the circulation field as well as other cases that violate economic laws and rules.
4. To organize the protection of consumersĄŻlegitimate rights and interests, to accept and handle the complaints of consumers, and to organize the investigation and punishment of cases that infringe the rights and interests of consumers; and to organize the investigation and punishment of acts dealing in adulterated and phony products in the market operational activities.
5. To supervise and administrate all kinds of consumer goods markets and capital goods markets according to law; to supervise and administrate on-line operational acts; and to participate in the supervision and administration of essential factors of production markets.
6. To investigate and punish the acts that infringe the rights of trademark according to law, to protect the exclusive right to use trademark, and to supervise and administrate the use and print of trademarks; and to direct the work of the application for affirmation of well-known trademarks and the work of trademark agencies.
7. To supervise and administrate the acts of advertisement release and operational activities of advertisement according to law, and direct the work of advertisement examination agencies.
8. To organize the implementation of administrative supervision of contracts, to work out the model contract text jointly with trade administrative departments, to supervise and administrate standard clauses of consumer-contracts, and to organize the investigation and punishment of acts that violate laws and rules by utilizing contracts.
9. To supervise and administrate brokers, brokerages and related intermediary service agencies.
10. To organize and administrate the registration of chattel mortgage, and to participate according to law in the supervision and administration of auction acts.
11. To implement the supervision and administration and comprehensive protection of enterprise names and the peculiar names, packages, decorations, trade secrets and trademarks of famous commodities.
12. To be responsible for the acceptance and handling of administrative reconsideration applications and the response to administrative actions.