Archives of state organs, social organizations, enterprises and institutions, families and individuals.

2. According to the content scope of archives, it can be divided into:

Comprehensive archives and professional archives.

3. According to the nature of archives, it can be divided into: document archives, personnel archives, litigation archives, accounting archives, scientific and technological archives, military archives, diplomatic archives, judicial archives, economic archives, industrial and commercial enterprise registration archives, teaching archives, art archives, manuscript archives, case archives, census archives, place name archives, urban construction archives, trademark archives, patent archives, real estate archives, financial archives and foreign-related archives.

4. According to the archival materials:

In addition to paper files, there are Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bamboo slips, silk books, films, tapes, CDs and other physical forms of non-paper files; According to the information expression, it can be divided into text files, audio-visual files and so on. According to the recording method, it can also be divided into ordinary files (mechanical and analog records) and electronic files (numbers).

5, according to the file belongs to the period can be divided into:

There are archives before the founding of the People's Republic of China (including revolutionary historical archives and archives of the old regime) and archives after the founding of the People's Republic of China (including archives of the party and the state, organs, armed forces, organizations, enterprises and institutions since the founding of the People's Republic of China). The former is usually called historical archives, while the latter is usually called realistic archives.

6, according to the form of file ownership can be divided into:

State-owned archives, collective-owned archives and individual-owned archives.

7, according to the language of the file can be divided into:

Chinese files, foreign files. China archives can also be subdivided into Chinese archives, Manchu archives and Manchu-Chinese comparative archives. Foreign language archives can also be subdivided into English archives, Japanese archives and Russian archives.

8. Archives can be divided into:

Archives in the fields of social management, science and technology, health care, culture and education, military affairs, diplomacy, literature and art. Generally recognized realistic categories (not strictly logical categories) include document files, scientific and technological files, professional files, audio-visual archives, electronic files and physical files.