Guangzhou University is not a vice-ministerial institution (that is, a vice-ministerial university), so the party secretary and president of the school are not vice-ministerial, but the official department level.

The Civil Service Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) can be divided into 13 levels, and the main hall level is at level 5 or 6. These people are generally cadres at the main hall level, as follows:

Leading cadres of ministries and commissions in the State Council (such as the Director of Social Science Research and Ideological and Political Work Department of the Ministry of Education)

Principal cadres of departments and bureaus of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government (such as director of Hebei Provincial Communications Department and director of Beijing Municipal Finance Bureau)

Deputy cadres of the deputy provincial municipal government (such as the deputy mayor of Ningbo)

The main cadres of the local municipal government (such as the mayor of Wuxi)

Full-time division cadres in the army (such as 1 director of the military logistics department and political commissar of the 34th division)

Dean of research institute of provincial academy of sciences (such as president of Jiangxi Academy of Sciences)

Director of the reception room of the provincial party Committee and government (such as the director of the reception room of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee and Government)

Directors of provincial population and family planning commissions (such as Jiangxi Provincial Population and Family Planning Commission)

Party Committee secretaries and presidents of colleges and universities in various provinces (such as President xinzhou teachers university)

Party secretary of the chairman of large state-owned enterprises and central enterprises (such as the chairman of China Three Gorges Corporation)

Deputy Secretary General of People's Daily