Ministry of Culture (China)

Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China
中华人民共和国文化部; Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó Wénhuàbù
	National Emblem of the People's Republic of China
Agency overview
Formed	September 1954; 70 years ago
Dissolved	19 March 2018; 6 years ago
Superseding agency	Ministry of Culture and Tourism;
Jurisdiction	China
Headquarters	Beijing
Minister responsible	Luo Shugang;
Parent agency	State Council
Website	www.mct.gov.cn

The Ministry of Culture (MOC) was a ministry of the government of the People's Republic of China which was dissolved on 19 March 2018.^[1] The responsibilities of the MOC, which were assumed by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, encompassed cultural policy and activities in the country, including managing national museums and monuments; promoting and protecting the arts (including censorship of visual, folk, theatrical, musical, dance, architectural, literary, televisual and cinematographic works); and managing the national archives and regional culture centers. Its headquarters were in Chaoyang District, Beijing.^[2]

Duties

The duty of the ministry was to digitize and preserve public domain works, and make them available and accessible to every citizen. China had millions of public domain works, including but not limited to books, pictures, music and films.^[3]^[4]

List of ministers

No.	Name	Took office	Left office
1	Shen Yanbing (better by the pen name Mao Dun)	October 1949	January 1965
2	Lu Dingyi	January 1965	June 1966
3	Xiao Wangdong (acting)	June 1966	January 1967
post abolished
−	Wu De (head of the Cultural Group of the State Council)	June 1970	January 1975
4	Yu Huiyong	January 1975	October 1976
5	Huang Zhen	December 1977	December 1980
6	Zhou Weizhi (acting)	December 1980	April 1982
7	Zhu Muzhi	April 1982	March 1986
8	Wang Meng	March 1986	September 1989
9	He Jingzhi	August 1989	November 1992
10	Liu Zhongde	November 1992	March 1998
11	Sun Jiazheng	March 1998	March 2008
12	Cai Wu	March 2008	December 2014
13	Luo Shugang	December 2014	March 2018