The National Archives Administration () of China is the national administrative agency responsible for historical records of the state dating back to imperial times in China. The archive collections include more than 800,000 records. There are more than 80 million items of information in documents, records, files, manuscripts on important political figures. The agency also concurrently holds records for the

Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, officially the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, is a political body that comprises the top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It is currently composed of 205 fu ...

. Hence it is also known as the Central Archives ().

History

The National Archives Agency was established in November 1954, as a national agency subordinated to the State Council of the People's Republic of China. In 1959,

CCP Central Committee The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, officially the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, is a political body that comprises the top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It is currently composed of 205 fu ...

decided the National Archives was not just an archive agency for the communist party and it should be also a state agency for repository of state official records. In 1970, the National Archives was made defunct. In 1979, the National Archives was reestablished. In 1985, the CCP Central Committee and State Council decided to change the National Archives owned by the State Council of the People's Republic of China leadership to manage all the archival work of the State Council executive government departments, all subordinated agencies administered by or reporting to the State Council. Central Archives agency was established separately in June 1959 by the CCP Central Committee to archive important documents for the party central committee and the central authorities. In 1993, the National Archives and Central Archives agency were merged into one unified agency called the State Archives Administration operating two archives, one for the state and one for the ruling political party.

Subordinate archives

# First Historical Archives of China in Beijing, holds document of the

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and

Qing The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...

dynasties. # Second Historical Archives of China in Nanjing, holds document of the

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, including both Beijing (Beiyang) and Nanjing (Kuomintang) governments.

Administration

The agency is structured in the following departments.

Internal units

*Office *Archival storage Department *Archival Use Department *Finance Department *Policies and regulations Research Department *Foreign Affairs Office *Information Management Centre

Affiliations

* China Archives Newspaper * China Archives Press * Archives of Science and Technology Institute * Archival cadres and Education Centre * Chinese Archives magazine

Secretary for the National Archives

*Zeng San (1954.11 - 1966.11) *Yang Qing (1966.07 - 1967.01) *Zhang Zhong (1979.06 - 1983.01) *Han Yuhu (1983.02 - 1988.11) *Feng Zizhi (1988.11 - 1994.01) *Wang Gang (1994.01 - 2000.01) *Mao Fumin (2000.01 - 2006.07) *Yang Dongquan (2006.07 - 2015.08) *Li Minghua (2015.08 - 2020.06) *Lu Guoqiang (2020.06 - present)

Curator of the Central Archives

*Zeng San (1959.06 - 1966) *Xiao Guang (1970.01 - 1979.06, curator of the CCP Central Committee archives) *Zeng San (1979.06 – 1982.02) *Wang Mingzhe (1982.02 - 1993.12) *Wang Gang (1993.12 - 1999.12) *Mao Fumin (1999.12 - 2006.07) *Yang Dongquan (2006.07 - 2015.07) *Li Minghua (2015.07 - 2020.05) *Lu Guoqiang (2020.05 - present)

References

External links

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