Director, commonly known as the official position of civil servants. Accordingly, the county 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.

Generally speaking, the army has directors in all departments of divisional units, such as the operational director of the military command, the cadre director of the military political department, and the health director of the military logistics department, while the corresponding divisional units can only have section chiefs, such as the intelligence chief of the divisional command, the organization chief of the divisional political department, and the transportation chief of the divisional logistics department. Generally speaking, the director's rank in the army is from regiment level to deputy division level.