1. Studying and putting forward the guiding principles, policies and strategies for the development of civil aviation industry, drafting civil aviation laws and regulations and supervising its implementation, promoting and guiding the structural reform of civil aviation industry and the corporate reform;
2. Drawing out plans for civil aviation industry's medium and long term development, carrying out macro-control over the industry, and responsible for comprehensive statistics and informatization of the whole industry;
3. Formulating policies, rules and regulations to ensure civil aviation safety, supervising and administrating the flight safety and ground safety, formulating the criteria for accidents and incidents, and investigating and handling aircraft accidents as provided;
4. Formulating civil aviation flight standards and administrative rules and regulations, carrying out operational certification and continuous supervision and inspection on civil aircraft operators, responsible for the management of credentials for civil aviation pilots and flight dispatchers, examining and approving the flight procedures and minimum operation requirements for airports, and taking charge of the civil aviation sanitary tasks;
5. Formulating the standards and rules and regulations on aircraft airworthiness administration, taking charge of aircraft type certification, production licensing, airworthiness certification, nationality registration, maintenance licensing and qualification regulation of maintenance personnel and ensuring such supervision and inspection are carried out in a continuous manner;
6. Formulating the standards, rules and regulations on the civil aviation air traffic management, drawing out the civil aviation airspace plans, responsible for the construction and management of civil air routes, air traffic management and air traffic controllers’ qualification regulation, and administrating the civil aviation navigation communication, aeronautical information and aeronautical meteorology;
7. Formulating standards, rules and regulations for airport construction and safe operation, supervising the airport construction and safe operation, examining and approving the general airport plans, issuing certificates to airports, carrying out industrial regulation on airport airfield, environmental protection and airport-occupied land;
8. Formulating standards and regulations for civil aviation security, administrating civil aviation security, supervising, inspecting, preventing and dealing with hijacking and aircraft explosion, providing guidance on the handling of major unlawful interference incidents affecting civil aviation safety, administrating and guiding airport security check, public security, firefighting and rescue and relief work;
9. Formulating policies, rules and regulations for air transport and general aviation, regulating air transport and general aviation market, issuing operation permits to civil aviation enterprises, organizing and coordinating important transport tasks;
10. Studying and putting forward pricing policy and economic regulation measures for civil aviation industry, monitoring the economic benefits of civil aviation industry, managing relevant budget funds, examining and approving the applications of enterprises for purchasing and leasing civil aircraft, studying and putting forward industry salary policy, regulating and providing guidance on wage policies of entities affiliated to the CAAC;
11. Leading the various administrations in different regions, autonomous regions and municipalities and regulating civil aviation related institutions and colleges, supervising cadres within the extent as provided, organizing and providing guidance on training and education;
12. Representing the country in handling civil aviation affairs involving foreign countries, responsible for negotiating and signing Air Service Agreements with foreign countries and supervising their implementation, safeguarding the national aviation interests, taking part in the ICAO activities and inter-governmental organizations as well as multilateral activities concerning civil aviation affairs, and handling civil aviation affairs involving Hongkong, Macau and Taiwan;
13. Responsible for strengthening the Party and masses relationship and the ideological work;
14. Undertaking other affairs assigned by the State Council.