Dalian Administration for Industry & Commerce, directly under Dalian Municipal Government, is in charge of supervising the market and executing the administration regulations in the whole city. Its main responsibilities include:

   Execute the state guidelines, policies, laws, rules and regulations for the administration for industry and commerce. Based on the local actual conditions, draft out participantly and execute the local administrative protocols, regulations and policies.

   Take in charge of the registration for industrial and commercial enterprises, units and persons engaged in business; verify the registration name, conform the business qualification, check and issue the business licenses, supervise and administrate the registration and business activities according to laws.

   Supervise the business activities in the market. Investigate and deal with the monopolization, unfair competition, business fraud, smuggle and related sales in circulation, pyramid sales and disguised pyramid sales, and other illegal economical cases against laws and regulations.

   Protect the consumers' lawful interest, deal with the consumers' complaint, investigate and deal with infringement of consumers' lawful interest and cheating business activities involving counterfeit and shoddy products.

   Supervise all kinds of markets of consumer goods and means of production, Internet services and take part in administrating market of factor of production according to laws.

   Investigate and deal with infringement of trademark rights, protect the exclusive right to use a registered trademark, supervise the use and making of the trademark. Guide the application of Well-known Marks determination. Guide the work of trademark agencies.

   Supervise the advertisement promulgation and ad business activities. Guide the work of the ad censorship.

   Execute administrative supervision for contracts, constitute model contract format associated with industry administrative authority.

   Constitute issues and format in consuming contracts, investigate and deal with infringements involving contracts.

   Supervise the broker, broker institution and other intermediary agencies.

   Administrate the registration of the chattel mortgage and take part in supervising the auction activities according to laws.

   Supervise and protect the names of the enterprises, proper names, package, upholster, business secrets, trademarks of well-known products according to laws.

   Deal with the issues regarding to the administration reviews and administrative proceedings and lawsuit response.