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Beijing Municipal Commission of Rural Affairs has the following main functions:

1. Implement the guidelines and policies of the state and the city on agriculture and rural economic development; draft local statutes and regulations on rural economy and supervise their implementation; coordinate and guide the administrative legislation and law enforcement of this sector.

2. Study and put forward policies on the city’s rural economic development; formulate medium- and long-term plans and annual plans guiding the city’s rural economic development and supervise their implementation.

3. Study and guide the restructuring of rural economy and the development of rural collective and cooperative economic organizations; improve the basic operation system and policies in rural areas.

4. Coordinate and guide the production, distribution, processing and foreign trade of rural area; guide the operation and management of rural cooperative economy; supervise and manage the work of reducing farmers’ burdens.

5. Organize and work out plans for infrastructure construction and major projects of the city’s agriculture, forestry, water, animal husbandry, fishery and agricultural machinery and monitor and inspect the relevant work.

6. Work out development plans and annual guidelines for the city’s mountainous areas; study and put forward policies on the development of mountainous areas; guide and coordinate the economic development in mountainous areas.

7. Be in charge of the division of agricultural resources, rural energy development, ecological agriculture and sustainable agricultural development; study and put forward the comprehensive plan for the city’s agriculture development and implement the comprehensive development projects on agriculture.

8. Organize and work out programs for rural science and technology, education and human capacity building and implement the strategy of developing agriculture through science and education.

9. Study and put forward planned arrangements for the funds of governmental support to agriculture; manage the city’s collecting of vegetable farms fund according to relevant regulations.

10. Participate in the formulation and coordination of plans for villages and towns and organize the implementation in accordance with the plans for villages and towns examined and approved by the planning department; manage village and town construction; guide pilot projects of small towns.

11. Guide and coordinate the corporate reforms and economic structure and layout adjustment of the agricultural sector.

12. Take charge of the reforms and development of the second and tertiary industries in the city’s rural areas and organize and work out the development plans for the second and tertiary industries in rural areas.

13. Undertake other duties assigned by the Municipal Government.

Administer the Beijing Municipal Township Enterprise Bureau according to The Reform Plan of the Beijing Municipal Party and Government Organs.