The Provisional Regulations for the Declassification and Division of Limit for the Use of Archives in the National and Local State Archival Repositoriesis released by the Nation-al Archives Administration of China and the Na-tional Administration of State Secrets Protec-tion in 1991.It serves as a significant founda-tion and guide for national and local state archi-val repositories to declassify archives and open archives.On the basis of sorting out and analyz-ing its main content and significance,combined with the newly revised Archives Law and State Secrets Protection Law,the paper concludes that the Provisional Regulations has some prob-lems such as unclear definition of certain claus-es,unclear entities responsible for declassifica-tion and opening of archives,improvement of procedures and standards on the review of de-classification and disclosure of archives.Sug-gestions for revision are therefore put forward.
The Provisional Regulations for the Declassification and Division of Limit for the Use of Archives in the National and Local State Archival RepositoriesDeclassification of ar-chivesOpening of archives