The household registration file is a special file formed by the public security household registration department in the process of household registration management in a certain administrative area, including household registration, household registration procedures, application, issuance of household registration books, household registration certificates, household registration certificates and other related documents.

Archives refer to various forms of original records with preservation value directly formed by people in various social activities, and original records are their essential attributes. Archives are formed by official institutions, semi-official institutions, unofficial institutions and some individuals, families and clans.

Archives come from documents, which are conditionally transformed from documents. Archives here refer to archives in a broad sense, that is, various materials formed in the form of words, charts, audio-visual images, etc. Archives and documents are different forms of the same thing at different value stages, which have homology and stage characteristics, as well as personality differences such as effectiveness, functionality and clutch.

The essential attribute of archives is that archives have the characteristics of historical reproducibility, knowledge, information, politics, culture, sociality, education and value, among which historical reproducibility is its essential attribute and other characteristics are its general attributes.

legal ground

People's Republic of China (PRC) Archives Law

Forty-eighth units or individuals have one of the following acts, by the archives departments at or above the county level and the relevant organs to the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished according to law:

(1) The archives owned by the state are lost;

(2) Providing, transcribing, duplicating or publishing archives owned by the state without authorization;

(3) buying, selling or illegally transferring state-owned archives;

(four) tampering, damaging, forging files or destroying files without authorization;

(5) Selling or giving away archives to foreigners or foreign organizations;

(6) Failing to file or hand over files on schedule, and refusing to make corrections after being ordered to do so;

(seven) do not open to the public in accordance with the provisions, provide the use of archives;

(8) Failing to take remedial measures knowing that there are hidden dangers of archives safety, resulting in damage or loss of archives, or being ordered to make rectification within a time limit due to hidden dangers of archives safety;

(nine) after the archives safety accident, do not take rescue measures or conceal or refuse to investigate;

(ten) the archives staff dereliction of duty, resulting in damage or loss of files.