Ministry of Culture and Tourism (China)

Ministry of Culture and Tourism (China)
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People's Republic of China is a department of the State Council of the People's Republic of China in charge of culture and tourism.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism is mainly responsible for researching and formulating cultural and tourism policies and measures, overall planning for the development of cultural undertakings, cultural industries, and tourism, in-depth implementation of cultural projects to benefit the people, organizing and implementing cultural resource census, excavation, and protection work, and maintaining various cultural markets. This includes ordering the tourism market, strengthening cultural exchanges with foreign countries, and promoting Chinese culture going global.
The ministry was established on 19 March 2018 based on the Ministry of Culture and the China National Tourism Administration.
Establishment
On March 17, 2018, the first session of the 13th National People's Congress adopted the "Decision of the First Session of the 13th National People's Congress on the Institutional Reform Plan of the State Council" and approved the "Organizational Reform Plan of the State Council." The plan stipulates: "Establish the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Integrate the responsibilities of the Ministry of Culture and the National Tourism Administration, and establish the Ministry of Culture and Tourism as a component department of the State Council. The Ministry of Culture and the National Tourism Administration will no longer be retained."
Responsibilities
According to the "Regulations on the Functional Configuration, Internal Organizations and Staffing of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism", the Ministry of Culture and Tourism assumes the following functions:
Implement the Party’s cultural work guidelines and policies, study and formulate cultural and tourism policies and measures, and draft cultural and tourism laws and regulations.
Coordinate the development of cultural undertakings, cultural industries, and tourism, formulate development plans and organize their implementation, promote the integrated development of culture and tourism, and promote the reform of cultural and tourism systems and mechanisms.
Manage major national cultural events, guide the construction of key national cultural facilities, organize the promotion of the overall national tourism image, promote foreign cooperation and international market promotion of the cultural industry and tourism industry, formulate tourism market development strategies and organize their implementation, guide and promote all-region tourism.
Guide and manage literary and artistic undertakings, guide artistic creation and production, support literary and artistic works that embody the core socialist values and are directional, representative, and exemplary, and promote the development of various categories of art and various art varieties.
Responsible for the development of public cultural undertakings, promoting the construction of the national public cultural service system and tourism public services, in-depth implementation of cultural projects to benefit the people, and coordinating the promotion of standardization and equalization of basic public cultural services.
Guide and promote the innovative development of cultural and tourism science and technology, and promote the informatization and standardization construction of the cultural and tourism industry.
Responsible for the protection of intangible cultural heritage and promote the protection, inheritance, popularization, promotion, and revitalization of intangible cultural heritage.
Coordinate the planning of the cultural industry and tourism industry, organize and implement the census, excavation, protection, and utilization of cultural and tourism resources, and promote the development of the cultural industry and tourism industry.
Guide the development of the cultural and tourism market, conduct industry supervision of cultural and tourism market operations, promote the construction of a credit system for the cultural and tourism industry, and regulate the cultural and tourism market in accordance with the law.
Guide comprehensive law enforcement in the national cultural market, organize the investigation and prosecution of illegal activities in national and cross-regional cultural, cultural relics, publishing, radio and television, film, tourism, and other markets, supervise and handle major and important cases, and maintain market order.
Guide and manage cultural and tourism exchanges, cooperation, publicity, and promotion with foreign countries and Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, guide the work of cultural and tourism institutions stationed abroad and in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, sign Sino-foreign cultural and tourism cooperation agreements on behalf of the country, organize large-scale cultural and tourism foreign affairs and exchange activities with Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan to promote Chinese culture going global.
Manage the National Cultural Heritage Administration.
Complete other tasks assigned by the Party Central Committee and the State Council.
Institutional organization
According to the "Regulations on the Functional Allocation, Internal Organizations and Staffing of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism", the "Reply of the Central Organization Office on the Organizational Establishment of Institutions Affiliated to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism", and the "Regulations on the Issuance of Institutions Affiliated to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism by the General Office of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism" "Notice on the List of Units", the Ministry of Culture and Tourism has set up the following institutions:
Internal departments
General Department
Department of Policies and Regulations
Department of Personnel
Department of Finance
Department of the Arts
Department of Public Services
Department of Science, Technology and Education (National Arts and Science Planning Leading Group Office)
Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage
Department of Industrial Development
Department of Resource Development
Department of Market Management
Cultural Market Comprehensive Law Enforcement Supervision Bureau
Bureau of International Exchange and Cooperation (Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Office)
Party Committee of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism
Retired Cadres Bureau
Affiliate national bureau
National Administration of Cultural Heritage (Deputy Ministerial Level)
Affiliate public institutions
Agency Service Bureau of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (Agency Service Center)
Ministry of Culture and Tourism Information Center
Chinese National Academy of Arts
National Library
Palace Museum
National Museum of China
Central Academy of Culture and Tourism Management
China Culture Media Group Co., Ltd.
National Peking Opera Theater
National Theater of China
China Opera and Dance Theater
China Oriental Performing Arts Group Co., Ltd.
China Symphony Orchestra
China Children's Art Theater
Central Opera House
National Ballet of China
China National Traditional Orchestra
China Coal Mine Art Troupe
National Art Museum of China
Fine Art Museum of Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Painting
China Digital Culture Group Co., Ltd.
China Animation Group Co., Ltd.
Ministry of Culture and Tourism Prince Kung's Mansion Museum
Talent Center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism
Ministry of Culture and Tourism Retirees Service Center
Ministry of Culture and Tourism Art Development Center
Qing History Compilation and Research Center, Ministry of Culture and Tourism
Chinese and Foreign Cultural Exchange Center
National Folk Literature and Art Development Center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism
China Institute of Art and Science and Technology
National Center for Public Cultural Development, Ministry of Culture and Tourism
National Arts Endowment Management Center
Ministry of Culture and Tourism Overseas Cultural Facilities Construction and Management Center
"China Tourism News" Co., Ltd.
China Tourism Press Co., Ltd.
China Tourism Academy (Data Center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism)
Tourism Quality Supervision and Management Institute of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism
Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall
List of ministers
See also
China Arts and Entertainment Group
Ministries of the People's Republic of China
References
Culture
China
China
Ministries established in 2018
2018 establishments in China