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 are all institutions that preserve archives in past dynasties. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), archives were established from the central to the local.

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Archives belong to the scientific and cultural institutions of the party and the state, are the bases for permanent preservation of archives, and are the centers for scientific research and utilization of archival historical materials in all aspects of work. Most archives in our country are the management departments that keep the archives of the party and government organs in a unified way, so it is both a party institution and a state institution.

The specific tasks of archives mainly include three aspects:

1. Receive and collect archives and related materials with long-term and permanent preservation value of organs, organizations and their subordinate units at the corresponding level, and conduct scientific management;

2. Actively carry out archives utilization through various channels;

3. Participate in compiling historical records.

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