The General Office of the People's Government of Hebei Province is a department in charge of assisting the government officials in handling the routine works with the following functions:

1. Assist the government leading groups in drafting or censoring and approving the official documents that will be sent to the State Council, the General Office and other departments of the State Council. The official documents are issued in the name of the provincial government or its General Office; to handle the documents and contacts with other departments of the provincial government and the city governments.

2. Prepare and provide service for the government meetings, assist the government leadership in implementing the resolutions made on the meetings.

3. Study the enquiries by other departments and the local governments of the cities, and offer suggestions to the leadership.

4. Assist the government leadership to make decisions on how to solve the controversial issues among the government departments in accordance with the instructions of the government leaders.

5. Urge each of the other provincial departments and each regional city government to implement the important documents, resolutions, instructions made by the State Council and the provincial government, examine and keep on surveying and studying how the things are going, and report the findings to the government leadership in time.

6. Assist the government leadership in handling the incidents, serious disasters and accidents.

7. Draft the important speeches for the government leadership and other important documents.

8. Keep on duty on behalf of the government, and draft the report regarding the important issues to the government leadership as soon as possible and help to handle the vital issues reported by each individual department and region.

9. Organize investigations and studies of some special subjects in accordance with the government plan, under the instructions by the government leaders, and offer relevant information and suggestions.

10. Handle the proposals, recommendations and comments made by deputies of the People's Congress and the proposals by members of the CPPCC. (Chinese People's Political Consultative Congress).

11. Be responsible for collecting, selecting, providing, feeding back information, guide the information system and the organizations in regard to the information; set up and supervise the official business network to facilitate the public access to the information network.

12. Be in charge of the daily administrative affairs, the reception, and at service to the leadership and all concerned.

13. Be in charge of supervising the branch institutions stationed outside of Hebei Province.

14. Undertake other commitments of the Hebei province.