Mind and politics department
1. Make plans for the mind and politics education of schools and carry them out.
2. Manage and train the mind and politics education of teachers. Instruct the construction of moral education of teachers.
3. Responsible for organizing great activities for the moral education of our city.
4. Responsible for investigation, inspection, assessment, and encouragement of the mind and politics of school. Summarize and spread the advanced experience.
5. Responsible for the network of the education of schools, society and families. Responsible for the construction of moral education.

Physical, sanitation and art education department
1. Layout and instruct the physical, sanitation, art and national defense education of kindergartens, primary schools and middle schools of our city. Study out the documents of directions.
2. Organize students to take part in the sports competitions of our city, our province and our country, the activities of the art education communication. Organize the investigation of the health status of the students in our city and the defense of illness.
3. Layout and instruct the construction of professional textbooks and the training for the teachers.
4. Instruct and correspond the national defense education of schools and the army training of the middle school students.

Capital construction and house property department
1.Draw up the capital constructional projects of the educational system in the whole municipal.
2.Formulate and implement the overall objective of the campus construction.
3.Work out , revise and carry out the school plan of directly under school.
4.Guide and supervise the capital construction and reform the unsafe buildings in the educational administrative department of county and district.
5.The administration of house property and the work of house transform in educational system.

Elementary educational department
1.Administrate the preschool education, elementary education and special education as a whole in the city , especially promote nine-year compulsory education.
2.Work out and carry out the basic teaching documents of elementary education.
3.Responsible for selecting and subscribing the teaching material of nine-year compulsory education; compiling the teaching material of primary and middle school in locality.
4.Verify the changing names of primary and middle school in municipality and report to a higher authority.
5.Organize the graduating general examination of ordinary senior middle school; be in charge of the work of administrating the school roll, checking and distributing diplomas.
6.Undertake to recruit the new students of middle school students, instruct and harmony the work in counties and sections.
7.Responsible for the educational work such as science, labor, computer and environmental protection.
8.Administrate the language work of the city as a whole.

Vocational and adult education department
1.Administrate the medium vocational school adults, educational level of vestibule school, cultural technique of adults and management of students’ status.
2.Guide the innovational and experimental work of the education in cities and villages.
3.Formulate and implement the teaching directive documents of medium vocational and adult education , and draw out the evaluating standard.
4.Responsible for choosing the teaching materials, intercalating the specialties, accessing the technical grading and guiding the graduates to obtain employment.
5.Responsible for auditing and declaring the work of renaming the medium vocational school.
6.Get the work of moral education in medium vocational school done well.
7.Responsible for cleaning off the adult illiteracy.
8.Responsible for the continuous education training of middle school teachers and headmasters.
9.Responsible for the implementary work of broadcasting education and modern long-range education.

Laws and regulation department
1.Research the direction of educational reform and the methods for its development investigate and study the education policy as well in the entire city.
2. Draft the regulations of local education.
3. Examine the regular files of education administrative management.
4. Give publicity to the education regulations.
5. Take charge of the hearing administrative reconsideration and administrative lawsuit initiated by education administrative action.

Organizing committee department
1. Take the responsibility of Party instruction .
2. The assessment and admittance of teachers’ qualification and the reward title of teachers’ competence salary and welfare for them should be included in its work
3. Organizing Committee should be in charge of school establishment, family planning and public organization.
4.Manage the arrangement of retired cadres.
5. Reform the personal distribution system.
6. Distribute, select and appoint the leading cadres.
7. Give guidance to the graduates from the technological academies and universities about job-hunting.

Planning and financing department
1. Constitute the layout of educational undertaking development in the entire city for a medium or a long term, and constitute its annual planning.
2. Regular the overall arrangement of primary and middle schools.
3. Take the responsibility about how to raise and use the educational outlay.
4.Work out and go though the budget and final accounts of the educational outlay then enforce it.
5. Collect the educational layout of city education.
6. Manage the donation and award fund.
7. Check up and administer the charging items and managing methods in schools.
8. Regulate the state-owned estate directly under enterprises and adjust the business administration tax item, financial affairs and interior audit within them.
9. The calculation and analysis of city educational information should be included.

Instruction department
1.Check and instruct the law, statute, policy of education’s carrying out
2.Check and instruct the if the government of the country(section) and rural area(town) perform their duties
Instruct the subordinate’s educational managing
3.Evaluate, check and accept the result of popularizing the compulsory education and eliminating the young illiteracy basically
4.Evaluate, check and accept the middle (or lower) school and other education institutions in Nanchang.
5.Make the system of education instructing and evaluation , instructional file .
6.The function of the department and the branch of Communist Party.
7.Charge for the department and the relationship between the people and Communist Party in the subordinate

Supervising department
1.The supervising room is directed under Nanchang supervising bureau