Chongqing Science and Technology Commission, one of the functional department of the municipality, is responsible mainly for the scientific management. Its competent superior department is the Ministry of Science and Technology of the State. Its main responsibilities are the following:

 

     It carries out the general and specific policies of the Party and the State, and implement the State’s scientific laws and statutes. It drafts the local proposals and the government regulations, and it supervises and check their implementation. Another function of the Commission is to study and formulate the macro strategies to develop the city’s science and technology, and the general and specific policies for the science and technology to promote the development of the society and economy. It also evaluates some major issues associated with science and technology to promote the development of the economy and the society, and determines the major layout of the scientific development and the fields of preferential development. In addition, the Commission plans as a whole and coordinates the initiative cultivation in science and technology. The Commission arranges and carries out also in charge of all-level examination of the hi-tech projects, and it involves itself in the scope of hi-tech industrialization projects, commercialization the relevant construction of the scientific base. The Commission takes responsibility for planning, guiding and technical personnel and scientific delegations going abroad for further education and scientific investigation.