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Department: Civil Affairs

Local governance    

  1. Responsible for the administrative region adjustment of county, township (town, city), village (li) and neighborhood increase and decrease
  2. Examine and verify the local governance and regulations in each office and councilman of township (town and city)
  3. Responsible for the leave, reward and punishment and retreat of County Executive, Township Mayor, Town Mayor, and Mayor
  4. Inauguration and handover of elected public officers
  5. Liaisons with Parliament
  6. Local governance meeting hosted by County Executive, Township Mayor, Town Mayor, and Mayor
  7. Supervised the villages and towns to conduct people's congress or local infrastructure symposium
  8. Supervise the operations in councilman of township (town and city)
  9. Commend for excellent village leaders and civil affairs personnel
  10. Subsidy for new (repair) and construction of the village assembly center, small projects or equipment needed
  11. Forward-looking project: shock-proof evaluation and reconstruction for local government offices, houses, village assembly centers (activity centers)
  12. Responsible for sisterhood business
  13. Disaster investigation and notification in civil affairs system
  14. Responsible for business regarding parliamentarians and the chief of a village or borough welfare benefit

Religion and folk customs

  1. Temple and church business
  2. Temple registration and guidance, and establishment and change of religious entities
  3. Review and manage the application of turning the non-urban lands into religious use business
  4. Guide religious organizations to improve their organization, establish pure religious beliefs, and set up public welfare and charity undertakings and praise
  5. Guide temples to organize traditional folk culture and various activities
  6. Business regarding heritage and charismatic group
  7. Conduct the activity of “scholars open the door of Wenchang temple”
  8. Conduct the selection and award of filial model
  9. Conduct memorial ceremony for Confucius
  10. Conduct the fete in spring and autumn at Martyrs’s Shrin and the remote sacrifices to Huangling memorial hall
  11. Promote the spirit of carbon reduction and energy saving, and reduce incense burning

Life care

  1. Establish, operate and manage public funeral facilities
  2. Plan and establish special areas for funeral facilities
  3. Approve, supervise, manage, evaluate and award the establishment of public and private funeral facilities
  4. Responsible for the establishment license, business license, guidance, management, evaluation and reward of the funeral service industry
  5. Ban the illegal establishment, expansion, construction, alteration or operation of funeral facilities
  6. Ban the illegal funeral services and illegal funeral behaviors
  7. Provide the funeral information and handle consumer complaints
  8. Draft and define the regulations on funeral autonomy

Household registration    

  1. Household registration
  2. National id card related
  3. Demographic service
  4. Naturalization, loss and restoration of nationality
  5. House numbering, rectification, replacement and certificate issuance
  6. Maintenance of house number, location data, and system update plan
  7. Assessment of households in townships, towns and cities
  8. Improvement of the office environment and equipments for each household registration office so as to increase service quality
  9. Advice for new inhabitants
  10. Maternity allowance
  11. Check the applicants’ identity for new passport inquiry
  12. Cross-unit notification service for household registration data changes

Military service    

  1. Military status survey
  2. Issues regarding conscripts in mainland China, Hong Kong and Macao
  3. Drawing lots, conscription, allocation and handover, deferred conscription, data collection of military assets, etc.
  4. Exemption, restriction and suspended draft
  5. Supplementary and substitute service
  6. Early retirement
  7. Examination and posture determination of conscripts
  8. Recruitment, conscription, and training for reserve officers and volunteering soldiers
  9. Study abroad, change of identity and military service of overseas residents
  10. Consolation and subsidies for the bereaved families of the dead soldiers, on-camp conscripts and the families of chiefs at the corresponding levels
  11. Respect the army, praise models, and give greetings to soldiers during three Chinese major festivals (Chinese New Year, Dragon Boat, Mid-Autumn)
  12. Management of military reserves’ changes and various recall activities
  13. Preparation, training and anti-terrorism for jointing national defense mobilization
  14. Business of staying behind, assessment, training, household service and information