Guangdong Provincial Archives

Guangdong Provincial Archives

The Guangdong Provincial Archives serves as a patriotic education base.

The Guangdong Provincial Archives Provincial Patriotic Education Base is located at No. 128 Longkou Middle Road, Tianhe North, Tianhe District, Guangzhou City, covering an area of 13,000 square meters. The facility provides approximately 10,000 square meters of space for conducting patriotic education activities, including archives exhibition halls, academic lecture halls, multimedia audiovisual rooms, and more. It is open 255 days per year, with an average annual reach of 15,000 visitors, and has educated approximately 300,000 people in recent years.

Over the years, the Guangdong Provincial Archives has consistently adhered to the principle of using archives to support governance and educate the public. By fully leveraging its rich archival resources, it has carried out patriotic education activities with commendable results. In late 2005, it was officially designated as the Guangdong Provincial Patriotic Education Base by the Guangdong Provincial Spiritual Civilization Construction Committee and the Publicity Department of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee. On January 10, 2006, the unveiling ceremony for the “Guangdong Provincial Patriotic Education Base” at the provincial archives was held, and it was opened to the public. To standardize the management of the base, the Guangdong Provincial Archives Bureau issued and implemented the Interim Management Measures for the Guangdong Provincial Patriotic Education Base and the Provincial University Student Social Practice Base in September 2007. Since the unveiling, the provincial archives has further strengthened the development of the base, continuously improved supporting facilities, refined and enriched educational content and formats, and deeply explored patriotic education materials from archival historical records. Utilizing its own exhibition spaces and talent advantages, it has successively launched over 30 large-scale thematic exhibitions; published a significant number of archival historical compilations; hosted dozens of “Famous Personalities Lecture Hall” forums; uploaded archives and historical materials that record and reflect Guangdong’s cultural and regional history to the Guangdong Archives Information Website (website: http://www.da.gd.gov.cn), using online technology to deliver education; and collaborated with television stations, radio stations, and newspapers to promote education through special columns and documentary productions. In December 2006, the provincial archives pioneered and implemented the “Public Open Day” system nationwide. On “Open Days,” the public can not only visit exhibitions, attend interest consultations, choose to listen to lectures and presentations, and watch film and video materials, but also tour normally restricted operational areas of the archives, including the records service area, archival preservation technology area, and archival storage and display zones. Since the implementation of the “Open Day” system, it has attracted tens of thousands of citizens and students to the archives each year. (Source: Guangdong Provincial Archives)