Beijing Urban Construction Archives

Beijing Urban Construction Archives

The Beijing Urban Construction Archives serves as a patriotic education base.

The Beijing Urban Construction Archives is an institution affiliated with the Municipal Commission of Planning and Natural Resources.

The Beijing Urban Construction Archives (abbreviated as: Beijing Urban Construction Archives) was established in 1981 with the approval of the Beijing Municipal People's Government and officially opened in 1990. It is under the administration of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Planning and Natural Resources.

The "Beijing Municipal Urban Construction Archives Management Measures" (Beijing Municipal People's Government Decree No. 129) stipulates: "The Municipal Construction Archives is responsible for receiving, collecting, organizing, and preserving urban construction archives that should be permanently and long-term preserved by the city, and for the scientific management and utilization of urban construction archives." "The Urban Construction Archives shall provide professional guidance for the formation, compilation, organization, and archiving of urban construction archives by construction units, and shall assign specific personnel to provide detailed guidance on the compilation, organization, and archiving of urban construction project archives for national and municipal key projects."

The Beijing Urban Construction Archives has a total floor area of 10,662 square meters, featuring 14 modern archival storage rooms and 1 reading room. It is equipped with various modern technical facilities such as computerized retrieval, photocopying, photography, audio recording, video recording, microfilming and microfilm retrieval, digital scanning, archive preservation, and intelligent monitoring. The archives houses 14 departments and maintains a team of professionals with high theoretical standards and rich practical experience. Professional and technical personnel account for 97% of the total staff, among which 57% hold mid-to-senior level professional and technical titles.

The Beijing Urban Construction Archives currently preserves 700,000 volumes of various paper-based archives, as well as a large number of videotapes, photographs, models, etc., covering urban planning and management, urban surveying and mapping, urban construction management, urban construction engineering design, municipal public facilities projects, urban pipeline projects, transportation projects, water conservancy and disaster prevention projects, civil construction projects, landscaping, historical sites and scenic spots, civil air defense projects, etc. It is a modern urban construction archives repository with rich collections, comprehensive facilities, and first-class technology.

In 2000, the Beijing Urban Construction Archives was awarded the title of "National First-Class Urban Construction Archives" by the Ministry of Construction; it has been repeatedly recognized as a "National Advanced Collective in Urban Construction Archives Work" by the Ministry of Construction. In 2003, it received the title of "Capital Civilized Unit" from the Capital Spiritual Civilization Construction Committee. In 2008, it was awarded the title of "2008 Beijing Olympic Project Construction Advanced Collective" by the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government. It has been repeatedly rated as a "Civilized Unit" and "Outstanding Unit" by the Municipal Commission of Planning. It was also granted the title of "2008 Beijing Olympics and Paralympics Archives Work Advanced Collective" by the Municipal Archives Bureau (Archives).

The Beijing Urban Construction Archives aims to establish the best and create excellence, closely focusing on the theme of "development and service." It implements the "Beijing Urban Construction Archives Work Plan during the 12th Five-Year Plan Period," gradually improving the city and district-level working systems, striving to carry out fundamental tasks such as receiving, preserving, and utilizing archives, continuing to deepen services, advancing the informatization of urban construction archives, strengthening law-based administration and standardized management, significantly enhancing the quality of the cadre team, and positioning the work of Beijing’s urban construction archives at the forefront nationwide.

Address: No. 5 Erqi Theatre Road, Xicheng District

Postal Code: 100045