Responsibilities of the Digital Service Division are as follows:

1. Promote software and information service industry development and guidance, enhancing technical service capacity through open-source software applications and accelerated technology development, expanding e-commerce opportunities on the international market, facilitating industry-academia collaboration and talent matching, thus stimulating software and information service industry growth
2. Plan, implement, and evaluate industry digital transformation, assist industries with digital transformation, promote cloud popularization, enhance industry digital competence
3. Promote digital technology research, development, and innovation, guide businesses in developing competitive digital products and services through digital economy related industry innovation and research subsidies, thus increasing independent development capacities
4. Process government software joint purchases, manage government purchase quality and prices, enhance purchase efficiency
5. Set the Regulations on Software and Information Service Personal Information Security Protection as authorized by the Personal Data Protection Act, conduct administrative investigations and issue penalties for relevant cases
6. Provide input on software and information service industry foreign (Chinese) investment reviews and approve tax incentive reviews according to relevant policies and regulations