To fulfill the above mentioned responsibilities, the Ministry is instituted with 10 functional departments (bureaus and general office) and one political department:

1. General Office
   It is responsible for:
   working out strategies of development, medium and long term plans and annual priorities for justice administration and supervising their implementations; collecting and analyzing various information on justice administration and providing feed-backs; coordinating, arranging and organizing important political activities of the Ministry and check the results; drafting and reviewing general documents and reports; organizing news release of the Ministry; directing the construction of the nationwide network of communications and information technology for justice administration; reviewing and transmitting(circulating) documents and telegrams; receiving and handling complaints from people's visitations; managing documentations and archives establishment of the Ministry.
   
   
2. Bureau of Prison Administration
   It is responsible for:
   supervising and inspecting implementations of laws, regulations and policies on reform of offenders; making plans for the establishments and layout of prisons throughout the nation; directing executions of criminal punishments, prison management and educational reform in prisons; collecting and analyzing information on imprisonment and reform of offenders; organizing and coordinating the inter-provincial transfer of prison inmates; directing the managements of construction, equipments and finance of prisons all over the nation; managing prisons that are directly affiliated to the Ministry.
   
   
3. Bureau of Re-education-through-labour Administration
   It is responsible for:
   supervising and inspecting the implementations of laws, regulations and policies concerning re-education through labour; directing controls, education and mandatory treatments of persons undergoing the re-education through labour; making plans for establishment and layout of the re-education through labour facilities; directing construction, finance and equipments managements in these facilities.
   
   
4. Department of Legal Publicity
   It is responsible for:
   drawing up plans of national legal publicity and organizing their implementations; directing and inspecting the work of governance based on law; guiding the media coverage of legal affairs and foreign oriented legal publicity.
   
   
5. Department of the Guidance of the work of lawyers and public notaries.
   It is responsible for:
   directing and supervising the work of legal consultation in governmental institutions, enterprises, and non-profit institutions and the work of institutions providing legal services to the society; examining, approving and administering the branch offices of law firms from foreign countries or the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macao in China (mainland);directing and supervising oversea representative offices of Chinese law firms; organizing and directing examinations(tests), appointments and registrations of public notaries; directing and regulating the establishment of public notaries offices and supervising their practice; entrusting lawyers and public notaries from the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macao to undertake the notarial affairs relating to the matters of the mainland; directing local authorities of justice administration to regulate local legal services.
   
   
6. Department of the Guidance of the Grass-root Work
   It is responsible for:
   providing guidance for local authorities of justice administration in their work of regulating people's mediation and community corrections; coordinating and directing the construction of local justice administration offices and the work of justice administration assistants; organizing and directing the work of resettlement help and education for those released from prisons or having finished their reeducation terms.
   
   
7. Department of National Judicial Examination
   It is responsible for:
   Elaborating and making plans, regulations and rules concerning the national judicial examination; drawing up and reviewing syllabus for the examination and reviewing and approving test papers; directing and supervising the implementation of the national judicial examination; directing theoretical researches on the judicial examination; promoting the informatization and international exchanges concerning the judicial examination; examining and conferring the Certificate of the Legal Profession Qualifications; directing legal education and higher professional education within the system of justice administration.
   
   
8. Department of Legislative Affairs
   It is responsible for:
   participating in the drafting of laws and regulations concerning justice administration and other legislative work with the entrustment of the National People's Congress and the State Council; organizing efforts of formulating the Ministry's rules on justice administration and other regulatory documents; directing judicial forensic services provided for the society; directing arbitrations and registrations; dealing with administrative review , lawsuit against the Ministry of Justice, and the supervision of law enforcement.
   
   
9. Department of Judicial Assistance and Foreign Affairs
   It is responsible for:
   participating in negotiations with other countries to sign relevant treaties of judicial assistance and checking the implementations of the treaties; organizing and participating in the UN activities in fields of crime prevention and criminal justice and conducting exchanges with the UN corresponding bodies; organizing and participating in multilateral and bilateral exchanges, technical cooperation and assistance concerning justice administration and jurisprudence; making researches on foreign judicial systems and practices; dealing with affairs involving the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macao as well as the Region of Taiwan; dealing with the foreign affairs of the Ministry and its directly affiliated institutions; directing the work involving foreign affairs of departments and bureaus of justice throughout the nation and examining their requests concerning going abroad on exiting beyond territorial borders.
   
   
10. Department of Finance and Equipment
    It is responsible for:
    elaborating and establishing rules and regulations on finance, materials and equipment and infrastructures; examining whether the funds for the system of justice administration are properly used; managing state-owned assets and finance of the Ministry and its directly affiliated institutions; controlling guns, ammunitions, uniforms, vehicles and other materials and equipment that belong to the system of justice administration.
    
    
11. Political Department
    It is responsible for:
    directing capacity building efforts, awareness campaign, activities of commendation and ideological infusion among the staff of the judicial administration system; directing the design of courses in educational and training institutions for juctice administration officials; making training programmes for incumbent officials of the system of justice administration and organizing their implementations; elaborating and establishing measures of personnel management in the system of justice administration; directing personnel management in local authorities of justice administration; examining assistant officials and submitting suggestions on their appointment, removal or rotation; regulating policing work and conferring policing ranks within the system of justice administration; designing the organic structure of the Ministry, managing salary, welfare, files of personnel; regulating civil servants and personnel management in the directly affiliated institutions of the Ministry.
    
    
      General Introduction of the Ministry of Justice of the People's Republic of China
    
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