5. Make the investment layout for the competitive industries, periodically release the project investment index; take charge of the declaration and sanction of the improve-technology items that exceed the quota or refer to some national, provincial or municipal policies; supervise the organization and implementation of the significant improve-technology items citywide,

6. Formulate and implement the guidelines and policies of the state enterprise reform, supervise the strategic reorganization of the state enterprises, boost the construction of the modern enterprise system; organize and develop neatening and normalizing the market economic order; take charge of the layout and cultivation of the major enterprises and groups supported extensively by the government; supervise the deficits make-up and load decrease work of the state enterprises; participate in supervising the enterprise direct financing; supervise the reform and development of the medium-and-pint-sized enterprises, and the legal advisory work.

7. Supervise the foreign-capital utilization of the industrial enterprises citywide (the direct foreign investment is included); prescribe the investment direction of foreign loans; take charge of the import and export management of the important industries and materials; participate in studying and presenting the policy suggestions on the overseas market exploitation and multi-market strategy actualisation of the industrial enterprises; instruct the enterprises developing the internationalised management, instruct the production enterprises with the overseas material processing and assemblage business; organize and develop the important fairs and exhibitions about the industrial product sale; organize the industrial foreign trade of the Ningbo city.

8. Manage the technological innovation and introduction, and the equipment public bidding of the enterprises citywide; formulate and implement the programs for the Hi-tech development and its application to reconstruct the traditional industries; assist involved departments with the cognisance of the Hi-tech industrial enterprises citywide; take charge of the examination and approval of the new-product trial-produce plan, excellent enterprises for technological advancement, and fine new products of city-level; participate in the reasonable collocation of the Three Outlay Items for the scientific and technological development; extend foreign technological communication and cooperation. .