State Council Information Office
The State Council Information Office is the chief information office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China and an external name of the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party.
Headquarters
One institution with two names
"One institution with two names" is a bureaucratic arrangement in the Chinese government wherein a government agency exists in name only, and its functions are in practice performed by another agency or a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organization, so that in effect one institution has two or more governmental brands or trade names to use selectively for political, historical, or bureaucratic reasons. This type of arrangement was historically common until the mid-1980s, but has been extensively revived by reforms which began in 2017.
The entrance to the former office building of the Shanghai Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau (上海市文化和旅游局), with additional signs of the "Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics" (上海市文物局), "Shanghai Radio and Television Bureau" (上海市广播电视局) and "Shanghai Cultural Relics Management Committee" (上海市文物管理委员会) name plates can be seen.