1.To carry out and formulate S&T(science and technology) laws and regulations, guideline and policy legislated by the Chinese Communist Party, Nation and Zhejiang provincial government; Be commissioned to draw up and to organize the implement of the local laws and regulations of management of S&T (science and technology), the protection of intellectual property rights, earthquake preventing and disaster reducing all over the municipality;

    2.To research on major issues of S&T for promoting the development of economy and society;To research and decide the major layout and priorities of S&T development of Ningbo municipality;To promote the construction of whole municipal S&T innovation system, and to upgrade the whole municipal capacity of innovation.

    3.To organize the formulation of medium term and long term plans as well as annual plans of the municipal civilian S&T development. To organize the formulation and implement of plans as well as annual plans of high and new technology development and industrialization;To administer municipal science operating expenses, the "three-item expenditure" on S&T (namely, the expenditure on trial-producing new products, the expenditure on the middle stage tests, and the expenditure on subsidies for major scientific research projects), and the funds of S&T innovation;To direct and manage the venture investing funds of municipal S&T;

    4.To research and put forward the guiding principles, policies and measures of S&T system reform and S&T innovation of the whole municipality with involved department of ministry ;To direct, coordinate and supervise the system reform in research institutes, and to examine the establishment and adjustment of scientific research institutions;To direct the management of intermediary agencies of S&T, non-native agencies of S&T and organizations of S&T;To coordinate and organize S&T popularization of the whole municipality;To manage on S&T information, S&T periodicals of the whole municipality;

    6.To cognizance the municipal high and new technology corporation , achievement, product, item affairs;To formulate in line with the responsibilities of evaluation municipal S&T achievements, S&T security, S&T statistic, S&T archives;In charge of S&T Awards of municipality;To direct and supervise municipal market and intermediary agencies of S&T;Promote to establish municipal system of S&T innovation and S&T service;To organize the recommend and applicant S&T plan programs, such as the Torch Program, the Spark Program, and so on; To manage on buy a share with technology;

    7.To administer on its own responsibility of the international affairs of S&T,To lay out and implement the international plan of S&T cooperation and exchange; To promote the export and import of high and new technology and the assimilation and how to make use of it;

    8.In charge of compiling developmental tactic and programming on municipal intellectual property protection and patent affairs. To coordinate and guide municipal intellectual property protection;To legislate patent dissension according to the correlative laws, judicially and check up patent transgress case. To organize and promote popularization of the law and rule of intellectual property;

    9.To administer of municipal earthquake preventing and the disaster reducing, to organize the formulation of medium term and long term plans as well as annual plans of the earthquake preventing and the disaster reducing;To administer standard of municipal earthquake preventing and the disaster reducing of the important facilities inside precinct;To administer appraisal and examination the earthquake preventing of all over the important engineering and important facilities of municipality and below municipality; Guide and supervise the research and develop of the related technology furnish of municipal earthquake monitors forecast, emergency salvage;To administer propagandize and educate work about the earthquake preventing and the disaster reducing.

    10.To take part in drawing up and decision-making the construction plans of science and technology item like major scientific engineering reforms and major engineering developments item; To administer on its own responsibility of the municipal soft science research.

    11.To direct and coordinate the administration of departments of the municipalities, county and borough of S&T. To organize the implement of developing vigorously by S&T and educational plans, to accelerate development of S&T in regional and trade;

    12.To coordinate and to put forward policies which would encourage scientists and technicians to play their roles fully; To take part in the administration of training, introducing into and examine the title of a technical post of scientists and technicians.

    13.To carry out other jobs assigned by the municipality.