Documents and records of enterprises and organizations: These documents include financial documents, marketing documents, human resources documents and contract documents of enterprises and organizations. Personal documents and records: these documents include personal family files, personal financial records, personal letters, diaries, photos, etc. Academic research documents and records: these documents include academic research data, reports, papers, patents, meeting records, etc.
Cultural heritage documents and records: These documents include cultural relics, artworks, audio-visual materials and cultural heritage documents. Documents and records of social organizations: These documents include articles of association, meeting minutes, activity records and financial records of social organizations. Other types of documents and records: These documents include various types of archives, such as medical records, legal documents, historical documents, maps, architectural drawings, etc.
Archives organization
Archives are institutions that collect and keep archives. Responsible for receiving, collecting, managing and utilizing archives. Tianfu in the Zhou Dynasty in China, Shiqu Pavilion in the Han Dynasty, Jiaku in the Tang Dynasty, Jiage Library in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and Huangshi Pavilion in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. They are institutions that have preserved archives for generations. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), archives were established from the central to the local.
Archives are the base for centralized custody of important archives of the Party and the state, and the center for all sectors of society to use archives information resources. Archival work is the main body of archival undertaking in China. There are 38 16 archives at all levels in China, including 3046 national comprehensive archives, 225 national special archives, 42 departmental archives/kloc-0, 304 enterprise archives, 40 cultural institutions archives and 59 scientific and technological institutions archives.