1. Take charge of the examination, approval and management of the items of foreign investment utilization and domestic fund introduction for the city industrial and commercial enterprises.

2. Present and implement the involved policies and measures of the business introduction and investment attraction citywide.

3. Assume the affairs about anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and industrial damage investigation.

4. Take charge of the import-and-export management for the important industrial products and materials.

5. Take charge of the application and report of the export quota for the textile.

6. Instruct enterprises development of the international management, overseas investment, materials processing and assemblage business.

7. Develop the international cooperation and communication among governments.

8. Instruct enterprises development of foreign trade (technologies) negotiation, cooperation and communication.

9. Help to solve the involved problems during the operation process for the foreign adventures and domestic-fund-introduction enterprises.

10. Collect, arrange and release the information about the foreign economy and trade.

11. Coordinate the horizontal economic cooperation.

12. Undertake the foreign affairs of the MEC.

13. Undertake other work commissioned by the MEC.