Responsibilities:

• Develop and supervise the implementation of national policies, laws, regulations and standards on ecological conservation, nature reserves, eco-function protection areas, soil environment protection, rural environment protection, biodiversity conservation, bio-safety, biological species resources (including bio-genetic resources, similarly hereinafter), and environmental safety management of bio-technologies;
• Organize the review of national nature reserves and eco-function protection areas, and recommend on the approval of a variety of new national nature reserves and eco-function protection areas;
• Take charge domestic coordination and policy guidance for the implementation of related international conventions on environment protection, e.g., Convention on Biodiversity, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, and Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, and manage the work on biodiversity, bio-safety, biological species resources, and environmental management of bio-technologies;
• Manage eco-environmental protection and comprehensive environment treatment in rural areas, and guide the development of ecological agriculture;
• Supervise and manage soil environment protection, and guide and coordinate the prevention and control of non-point pollution in rural areas and the development of organic food.

Divisions:

• Division of General Management (66556311) 
• Division of Regional Ecological Environmental Management (66556306)
• Division of Nature Reserves Management (66556313)
• Division of Rural Environmental Protection (Division of Soil Environmental Protection)(66556322)
• Office of Bio-Safety Management (Division of Biodiversity Conservation) (66556331)
• Secretary (66556305)