Functions：
- Implements the party’s policies on culture and formulates policies and measures on culture and tourism
- Drafts laws and regulations on culture and tourism and culture tourism integration, and promotes the structural reform of culture and tourism
- Organizes major national cultural activities, guides the construction of cultural facilities, promotes the image of China’s tourism and facilitates international cooperation
- Formulates and organizes the implementation of tourism market development strategies
- Promotes the construction of the national public cultural service system and the public tourism services
- Guides and promotes innovation in and development of culture and tourism-related science and technology, as well as the informatization and standardization of the industry
- Promotes the protection, inheritance, popularization, promotion and revitalization of cultural heritage
- Guides the development of the cultural and tourist markets and conducts industry supervision of market operations
- Promotes the construction of the credit system for the cultural and tourist industries and regulates the cultural and tourist markets
- Guides nationwide law enforcement of cultural markets, organizes investigations and punishment of violations in the national, cross-regional culture, cultural relics, publishing, radio and television, film, and tourism markets, supervising and supervising major cases and maintaining market order
- Guides and manages cultural and tourism exchanges, cooperation, and promotion to Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, guides the work of cultural and tourism organizations abroad, including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan,
- Signs Chinese-foreign cultural and tourism cooperation agreements, and organizes large-scale culture and tourism exchange activities with Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan to promote Chinese culture
- Manages the State Administration of Cultural Heritage
- Completes other tasks assigned by the Party Central Committee and the State Council