China No.1 Historical Archives is the national archives at the central level, which is specialized in keeping, cataloguing, editing, researching, consulting, utilizing, restoring and copying the archives of the central government and the royal family during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The museum is located in the north of Xihuamen Gate of the Palace Museum in Beijing, with a total construction area of 1.76 million square meters and a collection of Ming and Qing archives of 1.00 million copies.

China No.1 Historical Archives has 74 boxes of archives of central and some local organs in Ming and Qing Dynasties, with more than 6,543.8+million pieces, including more than 3,000 pieces in archives of ming dynasty, mainly in Qing Dynasty, including 1607 to1910/year, and it was formed when Puyi abdicated and lived in Tianjin. Most of them are Chinese paper files, as well as Manchu, Mongolian and Tibetan files, and a small number of Manchu wooden signs and Manchu old files formed in the early Qing Dynasty. Most of these files have been sorted and catalogued to varying degrees for reference. There are cataloging department, storage and utilization department, editing and research department, Manchu department, technology department, historical archives magazine, office and so on. The National Archives Catalogue Center of Ming and Qing Dynasties is also located in this museum. The archives kept in the museum are basically open to the public for inspection by domestic and foreign units and individuals.