The Fortune 500 companies are basically companies that have established the current corporate system. It is true that China National Tobacco Corporation is an enterprise in terms of name, but China Tobacco Corporation also has another name: State Tobacco Monopoly Administration , Therefore, in the eyes of foreigners, China Tobacco Company is not an enterprise.
China National Tobacco Corporation was established in January 1982. Its main responsibilities are to regulate the production, supply, sales, and production of its affiliated enterprises in accordance with national laws and relevant regulations, decrees, guidelines and policies of the State Council, and in accordance with national plans. Import and export business and foreign economic and technical cooperation are subject to centralized and unified management.
On July 17, 2012, the China Smoking Control Association sent a letter to the China Greening Foundation, recommending that China Tobacco Corporation’s “2011 Ecological China Contribution Award” be revoked.
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China Tobacco’s specific responsibilities:
1. Prepare annual comprehensive plans based on the national mid- and long-term plans, study investment directions, and prepare infrastructure and technology Transformation plans, organize the demonstration and implementation of key projects, inspect the implementation of annual production and operation plans, and conduct industry-wide statistical analysis.
2. Based on the guideline of "Science and technology is the primary productive force", formulate science and technology plans for the tobacco industry, organize scientific and technological research, promote the popularization and application of new technologies, new processes, and new materials in the tobacco industry, and rely on science and technology to develop tobacco .
3. Implement the national tobacco leaf planting, purchasing, and allocation plan, promote scientific tobacco growing measures such as "improved varieties, standardization, and regionalization" to improve the quality of tobacco leaves, and arrange the processing, storage, and export of tobacco leaves.
4. Organize and implement the annual cigarette industrial production plan, develop marketable products, improve product quality, increase economic benefits, implement modern management methods, and strengthen enterprise management.
5. Arrange the national cigarette market, organize the allocation of cigarettes across provinces and regions, be responsible for business situation surveys and forecasts, develop the cigarette market, improve cigarette circulation, and meet the needs of urban and rural people.
6. Organize the production and supply of special equipment and raw and auxiliary materials for the tobacco industry, as well as the digestion and absorption of advanced technologies.
7. Implement national foreign trade guidelines and policies, unify the import and export business of the tobacco industry, implement the integration of industry and trade, technology and trade, and complete the country's foreign exchange earning tasks.
8. China National Tobacco Corporation has six departments including the Office, Comprehensive Planning Department, Financial Accounting Department, Production Management Department, Science and Technology Department, and Administrative Management Department (the offices co-located with the Monopoly Bureau are not listed) and six professional companies: China Tobacco Leaf Production and Sales Company, China Cigarette Sales Company, China Tobacco Materials Company, China Tobacco Machinery Company, China Cigarette Filter Materials Company, and China Tobacco Import and Export Corporation.
9. China National Tobacco Corporation has established provincial tobacco companies in various provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government. Each provincial tobacco company may establish prefecture (city) and county-level tobacco companies within its jurisdiction based on business development needs.