a. Major functions

(1) To be responsible for drawing up the planning of administration according to the law for the province, to coordinate with the certain departments to draw up the plan of administration according to the law, and to organize the implementation; to do a good job of putting on records of the plan of administration according to the law of the provincial departments.

(2) To be responsible for draw up the plan of lawmaking of the Provincial Government and annual lawmaking program, and organize the implementation; to coordinate and direct the lawmaking program of governments in the province.

(3) To draw up or to organize to draw up the local rules and regulations, to examine and verify as a whole, to modify the local rules and regulations, which are drawn up by the departments in the province; to undertake the work of wanting the advise of laws, rules, and regulations.

(4) To examine and verify the administrative admission, the administrative charge, and the administrative punishment, and to supervise and check the implementation; to undertake the administrative compensation.

(5) To be responsible for implementation of research of lawmaking object, hearing of witnesses of lawmaking, and argumentation of lawmaking by the experts.

(6) To undertake the publication of rules and regulations of the Provincial Government, and the work of legislation interpretation of lawmaking; to be responsible for the legislation interpretation of the Provincial Government’s rules and regulations; to examine and verify, modify, and interpret the standardization documents of the Provincial Government.

(7) to be responsible for the supervision of administration according to the law; to organize or participate the examination for the implementation of laws, rules, and regulations; to research the common problems in the implementation and executing laws, rules, and regulations of administrative litigations, administrative reconsideration cases, administrative compensations, administrative punishments, administrative admissions, administrative charges, and other related actions of the government; to put forward the advise of perfecting the system and solving the problems; to draw up the suited rules and regulations, documents, and respondence.

(8) According to the rules, to transact the examining, approving, and administration the license of administrative executing laws, and to supervise and check the implementation of administrative persons who execute laws; to do a good job of the experiment of concentrating the power of the administrative punishment.

(9) To coordinate contradictions and conflicts in the implementation of laws and rules.

(10) To undertake the report and record of rules and regulations;

(11) To draw up the system of administrative reconsideration cases, to handle the reconsideration and responding, and to implement the statistic system of administrative reconsideration cases; to be responsible for the record and supervision of the key administrative reconsideration cases; to direct and supervise administrative reconsideration cases and responding in the province; to put forward the transaction advise for actions against the law of administrative reconsideration.

(12) To organize, clear, and compile the rules and regulations, and other standardization documents of the Provincial Government, and to edit the formal edition of rules and regulations; to organize, translate, and verify the foreign language version of rules and regulations of the Provincial Government.

(13) To organize with other departments to implement the popularization of laws of civil servant; to organize to implement the training and examining the personnel, who do the works of administrative execute laws and responding the administrative reconsideration, the knowledge of laws, rules, and regulations.

(14) To put forward the research of theory and practice of administration according to the law, and governmental legal system; to put forward the academic exchanges and governmental legal system exchanges in and aboard; to be responsible for legislation affairs of the Provincial Government, and to provide the counseling of laws for organs, companies, and other organizations.

(15) To direct governments’ legal systems in the province; to organize the certain non-governmental organizations to research and exchange the ideas of administration, law of administration, law of economy, and etc.

(16) To undertake other matters assigned by the Provincial Government.