1. establishment and development of China archives science: With the centuries-old history of archives and archives management, early China archives science came into being in 1930s, and the research pushed forward by archives enterprise has made great achievements since then. 1.1 Expanding research fields: Foundation <md development of national administration has expanded the research fields including Archives, organizational archives, administration, education, propaganda and the relationship between archives and other kinds of literature information, the profound and far-ranging relationship between archives and human society. All these fields providing extensive developing space and opportunity to China archives science may be divided into 4 aspects: basic theory, principle and methods of management, administration system, and constructing of archives science. 1.2 Accomplishing substantial fruits: Chinese archivists have made plentiful advancing achievements through their efforts. 1.3 setting up independent science system: With the development of science system and the progress of research level, early archives research, which was the subsidiary field of history, has became an independent area. Archives science in high education is an independent management subject in China at present. 2. characteristics of China archives science : Rooted in Chinese culture and archive management, archives science has characteristics as follows: 2.1 integrated with management practice: The constant impetus of archives research aimed to explore the principle of enterprise development, to solve practical management problems. and to predict the future come from the management and national archives enterprise, both of which continuously raise challenging problems and tasks. The percentage of basic theory, application theory and application technology has become balanced. Steps are taken to design, arrange and direct the research. 2.2 developing together with archives education and application technology : Large-scaled education system of archives has made a great deal of achievements and trained lots of archivists in China. Advancement in applied technology expanded domain of archives science and improved archives theory. 2.3 compatible with international archives research: Comprehensive communication and cooperation with foreign countries and international organizations is becoming an efficient method of China archivists to learn from each Other. 2.4 integrated with related social science and technology: Our research improved through the application of related subjects, technique and research methods. 3. trend of present China archives science : Many challenging and interesting problems, such as the reformation of management and administration system, functional appraisal, open and access of archives, innovation and application of new technology, standards and regulations, electronic records management etc., are resulted from information technology revolution and nation policy of opening and reforming Future improvement and developments: freer atmosphere of study and more methods ensure valuable and effective research. more cooperative and Large-scale projects ensure research of good quality. more enhanced transforming system from research to application ensure utility and generalization of research.