The Civil Affairs Bureau has streamlined its organization and weakened its functions. It has become a medium-sized bureau from the past, reducing its weight, but it is still a powerful department compared with ordinary small units and marginal departments.

The Civil Affairs Bureau is the functional department of the government in charge of social administrative affairs. Perform the important function of "sharing the worries for the government and solving the worries for the masses", and be in charge of disaster relief, double support, special care and resettlement, management of non-governmental organizations, construction of grass-roots political power, minimum living security for urban and rural residents, social welfare and social affairs, and geographical names division.