Legal Basis: Provisions on Water Conservancy Archives Article 1 In order to strengthen the work of water conservancy archives, promote the scientific and standardized management of water conservancy archives, enrich the resources of water conservancy archives, give full play to the role of archives in implementing the general tone of water conservancy reform and development, and promote the modernization of water conservancy governance system and governance capacity, these provisions are formulated in accordance with the Archives Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), the Provisions on the Administration of Government Archives and other laws and regulations, and in combination with the actual work of water conservancy archives.