1. To stipulate principles and policies for the development of cultur e and arts in China, to draft laws and regulations on culture and arts;
2. To make guidelines for the development of arts and culture in China and arrange for their implementation, to step up reforms on the administrative and management system for culture and arts;
3. To guide and administer literary and artistic undertakings, guide artistic creation and production, foster the development of different disciplines of art, administer and manage major national cultural activities;
4. To advance public service in culture and arts, make plans and give guidance for the production of public cultural products, steer the construction of major national cultural facilities and grassroot cultural facilities;
5. To stipulate policies and plan s for cultural industries, guide and coordinate their development, promote international exchange and cooperation in cultural industries;
6. To make guidelines for the protection of intangible cultural heritage, draft related laws and regulations, arrange for the implementation of intangible cultural heritage protection as well as the inheritance and publicity of the essence of Chinese culture;
7. To make guidelines for the protection of intangible cultural heritage, draft related laws and regulations, arrange for the implementation of intangible cultural heritage protection as well as the inheritance and publicity of the essence of Chinese culture;
8. To make guidelines for the development of cultural market in China, guide the integrated administration and law enforcement of the cultural market, take charge in the industrial supervision and administration of commercial cultural and artistic operation, instruct the supervision and administration of private entities dealing with performances and arts;
9. Take charge in the prior review and approval of cultural and artistic products before their online circulation, administer on the commercial venues providing Internet access services such as Internet cafes through operation licenses, supervise and administer on the service of online gaming (excluding the prior review and approval of online games before their online publication);
10. To make guidelines for the development of cartoon, animation and gaming industries, give guidance and coordination for the development of cartoon, animation and gaming industries;
11. To make guidelines for the development of culture-related technologies and supervise on their implementation, advance information development regarding culture-related technologies;
12. To guide and administer cultural exchange and cultural communications internationally, stipulate policies and regulations on international cultural exchange as well as cultural exchange with the Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR and the Taiwan region, instruct the work of cultural offices, cultural centers and cultural institutions under or related to Chinese Embassies and Consulates around the world, instruct the work of the Central Government representative offices in Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR, sign cultural cooperation agreements and programs with foreign countries on behalf of the State, arrange for the implementation of major international cultural exchange activities at home and abroad;
13. To fulfill other tasks assigned by the State Council.

1. Department of General Affairs
• Phone:010-5988 1432;
•     Coordinating Main functions of the ministry and its affiliated institutions, ensuring the implementation of major tasks in the ministry, stipulating internal rules and regulations and making annual working plans, performing daily administrative and clerical functions such as file transference , conference organization, document classification, archive management and internal fiscal arrangement, receiving public appeals and complaints, managing press relations and information communications.
2. CPC Committee in the Ministry of Culture
• Phone:010-5988 2020;Fax:010-5988 2030
•   Handling CPC-related work in the Ministry of Culture, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and affiliated nstitutions to the Ministry of Culture.
3. Bureau of External Cultural Relations
• Phone:010-59881952;
•    Guiding and administering international cultural exchange and cultural communications, stipulating policies and drafting related laws and regulations for cultural exchange with foreign countries and Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan regions, instructing the work of cultural offices under Chinese Embassies and Consulates around the world and the Central Government’s representative offices in Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR, guiding and administering the work of Chinese Cultural Centers in foreign countries, administering foreign cultural centers in China, organizing cultural exchange with Hong Kong , Macao and Taiwan regions, preparing the signing of cultural cooperation agreements and programs with foreign countries on behalf of the State, organizing major international cultural exchange activities at home and abroad.
4. Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage
• Phone:010-5988 2538;Fax:010-5988 1108
•   Stipulating policies on the protection of intangible cultural heritage and drafting related laws and regulations, making guidelines for the protection of national representative intangible cultural heritage items, organizing protective work for intangible cultural heritage, receiving, assessing and approving national representative intangible cultural heritage items, steering the work of inheriting and disseminating the essence of national culture, undertaking the work of compiling historical records for the Qing Dynasty.
5. Department of Community Culture
• Phone:010-5988 1736;Fax:010-5988 1776
•    Stipulating policies and guidelines for the development of social cultural undertakings and drafting related laws and regulations, guiding the development of community culture, ethnic culture, culture for the minors and the seniors, guiding the development of libraries and cultural centers (stations), guiding the National Project of Cultural Resources Information Sharing and project of safeguarding ancient manuscripts and books, guiding the people’s amateur cultural activities on the grassroot level, guiding the construction of village cultural activity rooms and community cultural centers.
6. Department of Culture Industry
• Phone:010-5988 1783;Fax:010-5988 1406
•    Stipulating policies and guidelines for the development of cultural industries and drafting related laws and regulations, supporting and fostering the development of cultural industries, guiding the development of major bases for cultural industries and distinctive regional cultural industrial clusters, ensuring the implementation of major cultural industrial projects, supporting international exchange and cooperation between cultural industries.
7. Department of Culture Markets
• Phone:010-5988 1880;Fax:010-5988 1880
•    The task of this department is to Making guidelines, plans, policies and rules for the development of cultural market, drafting related laws and regulations, guiding the integrated administration and law enforcement of cultural market, promoting the integration of law enforcement task forces from different departments such as culture, publishing, press, radio and television below the provincial levels, exercising industrial supervision over commercial cultural operations, exercising supervision over the market of artistic performances, cultural entertainment and artworks, giving prior circulation approvals to Internet-based music, fine arts and entertainment, online cartoon and animation (excluding cartoon and animation programs broadcast through Internet), online dramatic programs and performances and cell phone music, coordinating the industrial planning, industrial basis, project design, conferences, exhibitions, transactions and market supervision, giving guidance to industrial organizations, reviewing and administering imported online cultural and artistic contents from the users’ end, overseeing the administration of operation licenses for commercial venues providing Internet access services such as Internet cafes, exercising content supervision of electronic gaming appliances on their production, import and sales, supervision on the service of online gaming (excluding prior-circulation approval of online gaming as Internet publications), guiding the supervision of private performing arts companies.
8. Department of Science and Technology for Culture
• Phone:010-5988 1677;Fax:010-5988 1676
•     Making guidelines for the development of science and technology related to culture, coordinating key national scientific and technological research projects on culture and arts and promoting the application of scientific results, advancing the combination of culture and information technology, co-developing art colleges and universities with related departments, guiding the development of professional education in culture and arts, stipulating policies for the qualification tests of artistic talents and ensuring their coordination, supervision and implementation, examining and licensing trans-provincial talent qualification agencies.
9. Department of Arts
• Phone:010-5988 1752;Fax:010-5988 1332
•   The task for this department is to Making guidelines and plans for the development of litera ry and artistic undertakings, upporting representative, exemplary and experimental types of culture and art, supporting cultural and artistic works that embody the mainstream socialist core values, supporting cultural and artistic groups of national standards or representing ethnic and national creativity, promoting the prosperity of all disciplines of art, giving guidance and coordination to national artistic performances, exhibitions and major cultural events.</p>
10. Department of Finance
• Phone:010-5988 1698;
•    Financial management of the budget for cultural development and administration, instruct and supervise the financial arrangement of overseas cultural offices, institutions and affiliated institutions under the ministry, statistics gathering and analysis in the cultural field, financial arrangement for infrastructure building, state-owned assets, government purchase as well as internal audit, directing the building of major national cultural facilities and grassroot cultural facilities, arranging for the building of overseas Chinese Cultural Centers.
11. Department of Personnel
• Phone:010-5988 1813;Fax:010-5988 1812
•    Human resources management for the Ministry of Culture, its affiliated institutions and overseas offices, including their personnel matters , education and training, organization and staffing as well as labor and payment arrangements, making strategic plans for talent development in the cultural and artistic field, overseeing the certification of cultural professionals together with other mandated authorities.
12. Department of Policies and Regulations
• Phone:010-59881821;Fax:010-59881821
•    Stipulating policies and principles for culture and arts, drafting related laws and regulations, coordinating major research projects about cultural policies, drawing up medium-and- long-term development plan s for culture and arts, handling legal affairs related to the ministry and giving guidance to the administrative and management reform of culture and arts.
13. Supervision Bureau
• Phone:010-5988 1494;Fax:010-5988 1495
•     To supervise and inspect the implementation of CPC party guidelines and policies, state laws and regulations, resolutions and commends of the State Council. To supervise and inspect the safeguard of CPC party’s political disciplines, the implementation of the rules of democratic centralism, selection and appointment of leading cadres and the implementation of the accountability system for building of party work style and clean and industrious government by the CPC Leading Groups. To make initial verifications of violation instances of CPC party disciplines and government disciplines by the CPC Leading Group with approval of the CPC Central Committee of Supervision; to participate in the investigation of violation cases of CPC party disciplines and government disciplines by the CPC Leading Group; to investigate the violation cases and other important cases of CPC party disciplines and government disciplines by the cadres at the director level. To assist the CPC Leading Groups and the administrative leaderships in organizing and coordinating the building of party work styles and anti-corruption work by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. To accept and handle the accusations, delations and appeals by the party organizations, party members and the supervisees within the designated jurisdictions. To undertake other assignments as designated by the CPC Central Disciplinary Committee and Ministry of Supervision.