Main duties:
1. Implement national, provincial, and municipal laws, regulations, and rules on statistics, statistical systems, and statistical standards; supervise and examine the implementation; investigate violations; draft local laws and regulations.
2. Organize and coordinate the statistical work of Shenzhen, and ensure the authenticity, accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of statistical data; manage the statistical and survey projects in Shenzhen according to the law, and establish data storage and management systems; guide the statistical work of all districts and departments to strengthen work at the grass-root level.
3. Organize efforts to implement the national economic accounting system in Shenzhen; calculate the GDP of Shenzhen City and the districts of Shenzhen.
4. Organize efforts to implement national censuses of population, economy, agriculture, and other issues on major national conditions and national strength in Shenzhen.
5. Organize efforts to implement statistical surveys of agriculture, forestry, husbandry, fishery, manufacturing, construction industry, wholesale and retail trade, lodging, food and drink services, real estate and other fields of the service sector.
6. Organize efforts to implement statistical surveys of energy, investment, science and technology, population, earnings, culture, human resources, and financial industry.
7. Sort out and provide statistical data of geological survey and exploration, tourism, transportation, post, education, health, social security, public services, foreign trade, fiscal budget and environment of Shenzhen.
8. Collect, summarize, sort out and manage statistical data of economy, science and technology, resources, and environment, and analyze the data statistically; regularly issue statistical data of economic and social development; provide statistical data and counsels to the CPC Shenzhen Municipal Committee, the Municipal Government and relevant departments; provide statistical data to the society under the law.
9. Assist in the management of the heads and deputy heads of district statistics bureaus; guide the team building of statistics talents; conduct education and training in statistics; assist in managing the statistics certification examination, and position evaluation and employment.
10. Establish and manage the information-based system and database system of statistics; guide the implementation of basic standards and operation rules of statistical database systems and networks of district bureaus.
11. Undertake other tasks assigned by the CPC Shenzhen Municipal Committee, the Municipal Government, and other governing departments.
12. Function transformation:
(1) Improve statistical data quality, deepen the reform in the statistical system, and constitute a general economic calculation system, so as to provide good statistical services for the sustainable, healthy development of the economy and society.
(2) Constitute a local statistical system which drives high-quality development; improve statistical surveys and statistical methods; continuously facilitate scientific, standard and feasible statistical surveys; reduce the burden on survey respondents.
(3) Comprehensively enhance statistical digitalization for better services; improve the application of modern information technologies such as the Internet, big data, and cloud computing in statistics work; use smart statistics to construct an overall statistical information sharing mechanism and build a “big statistics” pattern.