The role and significance of local chronicles

As an informative document that comprehensively and systematically records China's nature, politics, economy, culture, social history and present situation, local chronicles are the link to inherit Chinese civilization and the carrier to show the features of contemporary China, and play an important role in preserving history, educating people and providing resources for China's economic and social development.

The Regulations on the Work of Local Records in the State Council (Order No.467 of the State Council of the People's Republic of China) promulgated on May 18, 2006 is the first national regulation on local records in China's history. The end of the history that local chronicles can't be relied on marks that the newly compiled local chronicles have entered a new stage of compiling local chronicles according to law and a new era of large-scale and standardized compilation of local chronicles. Over the past 30 years, more than 6,700 new third-class local chronicles, about 20,000 industry and department chronicles, more than 400 scenic spots and about 7,000 love letters have been published in China. Publish more than 500 kinds of three-level local comprehensive yearbooks/kloc-0; Collating, photocopying and publishing more than 2,000 old records; More than 400 local websites have been established, forming a grand team of more than 20,000 full-time local chroniclers and 65,438+10,000 part-time local chroniclers.