Department-level cadres, heads of various ministries and institutions in the State Council, below the deputy ministerial level. Department-level cadres are directors and deputy directors, and the administrative level is divided into main department level and deputy department level, commonly known as bureau level.

Division is the functional organization under the Ministry, and departments and bureaus are the functional organizations under the province. The province is at the same level as the office, and the office is at the same level as the office or bureau. Therefore, directors, directors and directors have the same level, and the difference lies in their names. The State Council is called the director, and the local name is the director or director.

According to the administrative level, bureau level and bureau level of national cadres, cadres are at the same level. The director level is equivalent to the mayor level of a prefecture-level city, such as the mayor of Weifang City, Shandong Province; In the province, it is equivalent to the level of provincial offices and provincial bureaus, such as the director of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Finance and the director of the Henan Provincial Administration for Industry and Commerce;

In the State Council, the departments and directors of ministries and commissions are equivalent to subordinates, such as Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, director of the State Council, and director of the Energy Bureau of the National Development and Reform Commission. Because the position at this level is generally the director, it is called the bureau level. The bureau level is the bureau level.

Bureau level: from ministerial level to department (bureau) level. The location is in the capital.

Hall (bureau) level: from the provincial level down to the hall (bureau) level, located in the provincial capital city.

Prefecture (city) level: from the provincial level to the prefecture (city) level, the location is in various places (cities).

General bureau level refers to the bureau level of ministries and commissions, that is, the level of departments, bureaus, prefectures, departments and cities, which is greater than the directly affiliated department (county) level and less than the deputy department (province) level, and the county bureau and district (prefecture-level city) bureau are the main department level.

The bureau level is a level of civil servants in China (the official level is administrative level 5, and the deputy level is administrative level 6), and the bureau level and above are national senior cadres.