Modeling and Analysis of the Sustainable Development of Chinese Archival Work in the Past Four Years

Abstract

People used physical or pictorial note-taking methods to record and memorize in ancient times. With the development of productive forces, the emergence of classes, the formation of the state, and the invention of writing, many official documents appeared and were sorted, which then became archives. The natural attributes of archives are closely related to the development of human society. On the one hand, archival work develops with the development of human society. On the other hand, the status of archival work will affect the development of civilization as well. To fill the gap in the research on the sustainable development of archival work, we established a comprehensive evaluation model to analyze the development of Chinese archival work from 2018 to 2021. We found that the overall level was gradually flourishing and was less affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, but there is still a lot of room for improvement in some aspects. This study provides valuable insights for formulating targeting strategies to improve the development of archives.