Bureau of Special Equipment Supervision takes the responsibility of administering and supervising the safety of boilers, pressure vessels, elevators, lifting appliances, passenger ropeways, large amusement devices and automobiles in worksites, formulating the list on special equipments which are subject to safety supervisions, developing relevant regulations and safety technical codes and organizing the implementation of such regulations and codes, supervising and examining the design, manufactures, installation, modification, repair and maintenance,  service, inspection and testing of special equipment as well as imported and exported special equipment. It is also responsible for investigating the accidents concerning special equipment and making statistics and analysis, approving the inspection and testing bodies of special equipment as well as the qualification of relevant inspectors and operators.