The National Development and Reform Commission is a comprehensive economic department. Anything related to the economy is related to the National Development and Reform Commission. For example, the Ministry of Science and Technology is responsible for mastering scientific and technological information and developing scientific and technological industries in the State Council. The Ministry of Civil Affairs is responsible for mastering civil affairs information and developing civil affairs. The National Development and Reform Commission coordinates and dispatches information from various departments, summarizes and analyzes it, and reports it to the State Council. The State Council's comprehensive development concept was formulated by the National Development and Reform Commission, and all departments were mobilized to implement it. Of course, this is only one of the responsibilities of the National Development and Reform Commission. There are many other functions. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) is a comprehensive coordination department for all aspects of the comprehensive economy. People call the National Development and Reform Commission "the second government", which makes sense. After all, now that the country takes economic development as its main goal, the scope of responsibility of the National Development and Reform Commission is even greater.

In the course of performing its duties, the National Development and Reform Commission implements the principles, policies and decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee on development and reform, and upholds and strengthens the Party's centralized and unified leadership over development and reform. The main responsibilities are:

1. Formulate and organize the implementation of national economic and social development strategies, medium-and long-term plans and annual plans. Take the lead in organizing and building a unified planning system. Responsible for the overall integration of national special planning, regional planning, spatial planning and national development planning. Drafting relevant laws and regulations on national economic and social development, economic system reform and opening to the outside world, and formulating departmental regulations.

2. Put forward the overall goal, main tasks and relevant policies to accelerate the construction of a modern economic system and promote high-quality development. Organize the evaluation and supervision of major strategic planning, major policies and major projects, and put forward relevant adjustment suggestions.

3, put forward the main objectives of national economic and social development, monitoring, forecasting and early warning of macroeconomic and social development trends, put forward macro-control policy recommendations. Comprehensively coordinate macroeconomic policies and take the lead in studying macroeconomic countermeasures. Standardize economic operation and coordinate and solve major problems in economic operation. Formulate and organize the implementation of relevant price policies, and organize the formulation of prices and important charging standards for a few important commodities and services managed by the state. Participate in the formulation of fiscal policy, monetary policy and land policy.

4. Guide, promote and comprehensively coordinate the work related to economic system reform, and put forward relevant reform suggestions. Take the lead in promoting supply-side structural reform. Make overall plans to promote the reform of property rights system and the market-oriented allocation of factors. Promote the improvement of the basic economic system and modern market system, and organize the implementation of the negative list system for market access in conjunction with relevant departments. Take the lead in promoting the optimization of the business environment.

5. Put forward strategies, plans, total balance and structural optimization policies for utilizing foreign capital and overseas investment. Play a leading role in the "Belt and Road Initiative". Take on the work related to going out to coordinate. Put forward a negative list of foreign investment access with relevant departments. Responsible for the total control, structural optimization and monitoring of full-caliber foreign debt.

6 responsible for the comprehensive management of investment, formulate the scale and structure, control objectives and policies of fixed assets investment in the whole society, and formulate the examination and approval authority and investment catalogue of government investment projects in conjunction with relevant departments. Fixed assets investment projects approved by the government. Arrange the central financial construction funds and examine and approve major projects within the authority stipulated by the State Council. Plan major construction projects and production capacity layout. Formulate and promote the implementation of policies and measures to encourage private investment.