Palace Museum is a cultural treasure of our country, with a global reputation and is widely paid attention to by all walks of life. Because the president of the Palace Museum is conventional, he is the deputy ministerial-level leader of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Many people have always regarded the Palace Museum as a deputy ministerial-level unit for granted, and they have no idea that this is a misunderstanding. In fact, the Palace Museum is a department-level unit.
1. First, let’s take a look at the institutional overview of the Palace Museum
The Palace Museum is the largest comprehensive museum in my country and is a public welfare public institution directly under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The main responsibilities and business are to collect and exhibit palace cultural relics and display cultural heritage, to excavate, protect, restore, collect and promote cultural relics, and to supplement the development of tourism resources. There are more than 1,400 employees in office and 41 internal institutions, namely: the Institute Office, Personnel Department, Finance Department, International Exchange Department (Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Office), the Law Department, Cultural Industry Management Department, Audit Department, Budget Department, Party Committee Office, Discipline Inspection and Supervision Office, Trade Union Office, Retired Personnel Service Office, Business Development Department, Cultural Relics Management Office, Scientific Research Department, Calligraphy and Painting Department, Utensils Department, Palace History Department, Cultural and Protection Science Department, Exhibition Department, Digital and Information Department, Library, Ancient Construction Department, Propaganda Department, Forbidden City Research Institute, Research Office, Publishing Department, Repair and Skills Department, Archaeology Department, Cultural and Creative Business Department, Security Department, Open Management Office, Cultural Relics Bureau, Engineering Management Office, Administrative Department, Infrastructure Department, North Campus Management Office, Fire Department, Safety Technology Department, Forbidden City World Heritage Monitoring Department, and Cultural Relics Protection Standardization Research Institute.
2. Secondly, let’s explain why the Palace Museum is not a deputy department but a main hall
is mainly based on two factual analysis:
1, the internal organization of the Palace Museum . According to common sense, if the Palace Museum has a deputy ministerial-level structure, its internal institutions should set up departments, bureaus and centers just like the National Bureau of Statistics, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, , and the National Bureau of Cultural Heritage. The existing 41 internal units of the Palace Museum, whether they are the hospital office, the personnel and finance department, or the departments and departments of the technical department, are all at the department level without exception. This has clear annotations in the institutional information it publishes to the public, and it can basically be determined that the Palace Museum is a department-level unit. This is one.
2, the specific administrative level of the hospital leaders . The leadership team of the Palace Museum is currently in a state of 1, 8, and 1 discipline inspection committee secretary.
Dean Wang Xudong is a member of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. He ranks third among the leadership team of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. He is the only deputy minister-level leader in the hospital.
Party Secretary and Vice President Du Haijiang . He has served as deputy director of the Finance Department of the Ministry of Culture, deputy director of the General Office, and director of the Service Center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. In March 2019, he was transferred to the position of Party Secretary and Vice President of the Palace Museum. He is the only official-level cadre in the Palace Museum. If the Palace Museum is a deputy ministerial-level unit, Du Haijiang, as the Party Secretary of the Academy, should be a deputy ministerial-level cadre, but he has not yet seen his clear deputy department.
Executive Vice President Lou Wei , in October 2012, was appointed as assistant director of the Palace Museum. The parentheses behind the position were added with "superior department level". In January 2014, he was promoted to vice president of the Palace Museum. From the main office, he was the deputy department level. It can be seen that Lou, the executive vice president, is only at the deputy department level. If the Palace Museum is a deputy ministerial level unit, Lou should at least be at the department level.
Similarly, several other deputy directors of the Palace Museum are almost promoted from the hospital. Before entering the leadership team of the hospital, they were all heads of various internal departments without exception. Many of them added brackets and clearly stated that they were at the department level. From this, it is judged that the deputy directors of the Palace Museum are usually configured at the department level, which is exactly the same as the deputy position setting of the department-level architecture unit, which shows that the administrative specifications of the Palace Museum are also at the department level, rather than the deputy minister level that many people understand.
