The Balanced Scorecard(BSC)provides useful principles and tools for the strategic planning and performance evaluation index construction of the national archives.Based on the BSC principle and existing research,combined with the mission,tasks,new needs,and new characteristics of the national archives in the new era,this paper explores the construction of a more contemporary index framework of the performance appraisal for the national archives from four dimensions:user service,financial management,internal business processes,as well as learning and innovation.