Legal basis: Archives Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).
Article 9 State organs, public organizations, enterprises, institutions and other organizations shall make sure that archival institutions or archivists are responsible for managing the archives of their own units, and supervise and guide the archival work of their subordinate units.
According to the needs of archives management, the central state organs shall guide the archives work of this system within the scope of their duties.
Tenth central and local archives at or above the county level are cultural institutions that centrally manage archives, and are responsible for collecting, sorting out, keeping and providing archives within their respective responsibilities.