Among them, the office and the bureau are equal. The central ministries and commissions are called bureau-level, provincial places are called bureau-level, and prefecture-level cities are called prefecture-level cities.

The Ministry is a component of the State Council, and its units at the same level include other directly affiliated units in the State Council, such as State Taxation Administration of The People's Republic of China, People's Republic of China (PRC), and General Administration of Customs. At the administrative level, it belongs to the provincial and ministerial level; Division is a functional department established by the central ministries and commissions, and its administrative level is prefectural level. There are many names of the bureau, but its administrative level should be judged concretely and cannot be generalized.

For example, People's Republic of China (PRC) State Taxation Bureau is a ministerial-level unit, while * * County Public Security Bureau and Price Bureau are only district-level units. There are also many settings, the administrative level can refer to the county regiment level or county director, and the departments generally refer to the district level.

The director-general is a post in the administrative level of cadres in China, and the level is departmental level. Director-level cadres (prefecture-level cadres) are senior cadres. For example, the Director of the Social Science Research and Ideological and Political Work Department of the Ministry of Education is the main cadre of various ministries and commissions in the State Council.

The bureau level is a level of civil servants in China (the chief is administrative level 5, and the deputy is administrative level 6). The bureau level and above are senior national cadres, that is, prefecture-level cities, and the departments, departments, bureaus (non-city and county bureaus) and prefecture-level cities are the same level.

Director-bureau level is one of the administrative levels of cadres in China, and bureau-level cadres (prefecture-level cadres) are senior cadres.

The official position of civil servants is commonly known as county level. Accordingly, the department level is the county level, with the section chief below and the director or director above. The county magistrate is equivalent to the director level. In some cases, the director belongs to the deputy county level, such as the president of the prefecture-level procuratorate, and many deputy department-level units belong to the deputy county level according to state regulations.

Section chief: In public institutions and government agencies, they generally exercise the functions entrusted by the government and belong to the competent departments. According to the nature of the unit, there is a big gap between the rights and functions of departments. In the enterprise, the section chief belongs to the middle management cadre. Generally, in Japanese-funded enterprises or Korean-funded and Taiwan-funded enterprises in China, the director below the minister or manager is also called the section chief (かちょぅ).

Reference: Encyclopedia-China cadre level