Responsibilities:

• Organize the development of national programs and plans on environmental protection, participate in the formulation of the outline of national sustainable development, and act as the focal point to administrate the coordination, examination and submission for approval of special plans and programs in this sector;
• Participate in the formulation of plans on national economic and social development, plans on the treatment of lands, land use plans, and eco-environmental development plans, and examine the components of environmental protection in the urban master plans;
• Take charge the management of major environmental protection projects and programs on the capacity building of environmental system that are subsidized by the Central Government, and manage the demonstration projects as a focal point;
• Organize the formulation of the Report on the State of the Environment in China and Environmental Statistics Annals, and review the reports on the environmental statistics and information released to the public in the name of SEPA.

Divisions:

• Division of General Management (66556108)
• Division of Planning (66556117)
• Division of Statistics (66556110)
• Division of Budgets (66556122)
• Division of Investment Management (66556124)
• Division of Financing and Accounting (66556130，66556135) 
• Secretary (66556104)