（Adopted at the 26th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress on March 5， 1983）
颁布日期：19830305 　实施日期：19830305 　颁布单位：全国人大常委会

The 22nd Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress， in its Decision on the Question of Structural Reform of The State Council， decided to establish the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade through a merger of the Import and Export Commission， the Ministry of Foreign Trade， the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and the Foreign Investment Commission. In view of this， the power Of ratification formerly exercised by the Foreign Investment Commission pursuant to the Law of the People's Republic of China on Chinese-Foreign Equity Joint Ventures and other laws and regulations concerning foreign economic relations shall hereafter be exercised accordingly by the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade