Ministry of Culture and Tourism People's Republic of China

Ministry of Culture and Tourism is established as a department under the State Council responsible for the administration of China’s cultural and artistic affairs.

The main responsibilities of the ministry are:

• making guidelines for cultural and art-related policies and principles
• drafting cultural and art-related laws and regulations
• guiding the reform of cultural system
• administrating cultural and artistic industry
• directing the artistic creation and production
• supporting representative, model and experimental arts and cultural works
• administrating national important cultural activities
• planning and guidance of the construction of national key cultural facilities
• making guidelines for cultural market development plans
• guiding comprehensive law enforcement in cultural markets
• exercising supervision over cultural and art-related commercial operations
• supervising the State Administration of Cultural Heritage