Commerce and Economic Development Bureau
The Commerce and Economic Development Bureau is an agency of the Government of Hong Kong responsible for policy matters on Hong Kong's external commercial relations, inward investment promotion, intellectual property protection, industry and business support, tourism, consumer protection and competition, as well as broadcasting, film-related issues, overall view of creative industries, development of telecommunications, and control of obscene and indecent articles in Hong Kong.
The bureau is headed by the Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, currently Edward Yau. It is divided into the Commerce, Industry and Tourism Branch and the Communications and Creative Industry Branch, each headed by a Permanent Secretary.Subordinate agencies
The following public entities are managed by the bureau:
- Tourism Commission
- Travel Agents Registry
- Hong Kong Observatory
- Intellectual Property Department
- Invest Hong Kong
- Create Hong Kong
- Office of the Communications Authority
- Post Office
- Radio Television Hong Kong
- Trade and Industry Department
- Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices
