First of all, the director of the Education Bureau is a department-level cadre, usually at the department level, at the township level, and the chief clerk: level 9 to 12; Secondly, the inspector is a deputy ministerial level and belongs to a professional and technical post. It is a person employed by the Ministry of Education to carry out educational supervision according to law. Inspectors should be composed of personnel with professional expertise in education funds, educational facilities and equipment, the construction of teachers, school education and teaching. The biggest members of the Education Bureau are party committee secretaries and directors. The inspector is equivalent to the deputy treatment, and has no real power. It is just a post for arranging personnel. In fact, many administrative units are inspectors.

To sum up, the deputy inspector of prefecture-level city education bureau has more power than the supervisor.