Deputy ministerial level. According to the information on Sohu.com, the president is at the deputy ministerial level, and the chief editor (or editor-in-chief) is at the deputy ministerial or departmental level. For provincial and municipal party newspapers and organs, the president is at the main department level, and the chief editor (or editor-in-chief) is at the chief editor level. . Intellectual Property Publishing House (formerly known as Patent Document Publishing House) was established in August 1980. It is supervised and sponsored by the State Intellectual Property Office and is a statutory publishing unit for patent documents in China.