The minister of culture and tourism of the People's Republic of China is the head of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People's Republic of China and a member of the State Council. Within the State Council, the position is twenty-first in order of precedence. The minister is responsible for leading the ministry, presiding over its meetings, and signing important documents related to the ministry. Officially, the minister is nominated by the premier of the State Council, who is then approved by the National People's Congress or its Standing Committee and appointed by the president.
The current minister is Sun Yeli, who concurrently serves as the Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of the ministry and the deputy head of the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party.
List of ministers
Minister of Culture No.NameTook officeLeft office1Shen Yanbing (better by the pen name Mao Dun)October 1949January 19652Lu DingyiJanuary 1965June 19663Xiao Wangdong (acting)June 1966January 1967post abolished−Wu De (head of the Cultural Group of the State Council)June 1970January 19754Yu HuiyongJanuary 1975October 19765Huang ZhenDecember 1977December 19806Zhou Weizhi (acting)December 1980April 19827Zhu MuzhiApril 1982March 19868Wang MengMarch 1986September 19899He JingzhiAugust 1989November 199210Liu ZhongdeNovember 1992March 199811Sun JiazhengMarch 1998March 200812Cai WuMarch 2008December 201413Luo ShugangDecember 2014March 2018
Minister of Culture and Tourism No.NameTook officeLeft office1Luo Shugang19 March 201811 August 20202Hu Heping11 August 202029 December 20233Sun Yeli29 December 2023Incumbent
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