27. National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC)
| Minister: | Zhang Ping |
| Vice Ministers: | Chen Deming Wang Chunzheng Zhang Guobao Xie Zhenhua Zhu Zhixin Wang Jinxiang Ou Xinqian Zhang Mao Zhang Xiaoqiang Du Ying Bi Jingquan |
| Secretary General: | Han Yongwen |
| Address: | 38 Yuetannanjie, Xicheng District, Beijing 100824 |
| Telephone: | 86-10-6850-2000 |
| Facsimile: | 86-10-6850-1090 |
| Website: | www.ndrc.gov.cn |
| Departments: | General Office; Policy Studies Office; Development Planning; National Economy; Economic Operations Bureau; Economic System Reform; Fixed Assets Investment; Industrial Policies; Foreign Capital Utilization; Regional Economy; Rural Economy; Energy Bureau; Transportation; Industry; High-Tech Industry; Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises; Resource Conservation and Environmental Protection; Social Development; Trade; Fiscal and Financial Affairs; Prices; Price Supervision; Employment and Income Distribution; Laws and Regulations; Foreign Affairs; Personnel |
- Research and coordinate national economic and social development strategies as well as mid-to-long-term and annual development plans, including industrial production and output; this encompasses balancing overall supply and demand, resource allocation, and coordination of regional cooperation and development
- Manage public finances and analyze the financial, economic and social development, and international and domestic economic trends; conduct macroeconomic forecasting including the analysis of prices, tax, profit, and exchange rates in macroeconomic management
- Plan the scope and composition of fixed-asset investment; arrange public finance for construction; direct the utilization of foreign loans
- Research and develop strategies for the utilization of foreign investment
- Establish and enact price policies; set and adjust prices and fees for important state-managed commodities
NDRC, known as the State Development Planning Commission until March 2003, is responsible for directing policies related to China's industries, price reform, fixed-asset investment, and western development. Traditionally China's state planning organ, NDRC has evolved to assume many of the macroeconomic and approval operations formerly performed by the former State Economic and Trade Commission (SETC). NDRC also absorbed many functions of the former State Council Office for Economic Restructuring (SCORE).
NDRC expanded significantly with SETC's abolition, absorbing SETC departments that handled investment and planning, resource conservation, gold, and state monopolies such as salt, rare earth, and tobacco. In some cases the absorption of SETC responsibilities serves to eliminate redundancies and in other cases moves to strengthen NDRC's role as a policy office. In line with these moves, former NDPC offices that performed more of a direct regulatory function, such as domestic trade and use of funds abroad, were transferred to the new Ministry of Commerce
NDRC retains key decisionmaking authority over specific investment and market activity through its broad responsibilities for construction of key infrastructure and energy projects, bidding, and pricing. NDRC regulates China's western development strategy and south-north water transfer project as well as China's overall five-year planning exercises. The office is responsible for collecting, processing, and providing economic information to other government departments and enterprises.
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