Hall's first election in the first year of the
Xuantong era of the Qing Dynasty (1909), and at the same time, the oldest existing photo in the Archives of Yuhuan. During the period of the
Republic of China on the mainland, Yuhuan County government had not yet established an archive, and archive management was carried out by the General Affairs Department and the Secretariat Office, with dedicated clerks responsible for document management. After the founding of the
People's Republic of China, the
Yuhuan County Committee and
County People's Government had a part-time archivist in the Secretariat Office. At that time, in order to meet the needs of coastal struggles, document and archive management were simplified and streamlined. In 1953, an archive room was established. Subsequently, documents and archives from various departments were gradually transferred there. In April 1962, it was restructured into the County Archives of Yuhuan. During the
Cultural Revolution, all archives were transferred to
Huangyan District, with some of them being damaged by
termites. After the Cultural Revolution ended, work resumed as normal. In July 1980, County Archives of Yuhuan was formally established, and at the time of its establishment, it had 6,025 volumes of archival materials. In October 1984, the archive building was completed. By the end of 1985, most of the archives from before 1980 had been received, and work had also begun on creating audio-visual archives. In July 1988, County Archives of Yuhuan opened 778 volumes of historical archives from before the founding of the People's Republic of China and 278 volumes of historical archives from after its founding. In December 1995, County Archives of Yuhuan underwent an upgrading and evaluation by a joint evaluation team from the Zhejiang Provincial Archives Bureau. It ranked fourth in the overall assessment score in the province and became the tenth 'Zhejiang Province Level 2 Comprehensive Archives' in
Zhejiang Province and the first in Taizhou City. In the same year, it was awarded the title of 'Advanced Collective of Zhejiang Province's Archive System' for the fifteenth consecutive time. In March 1996, the Archive was recognized as an 'Advanced Unit in Zhejiang Province's Archives Work during the Eighth
Five-Year Plan.' It was estimated that by 1996, the archives had created direct and indirect economic benefits of more than 5 million yuan for the community. On December 16, 1997, it was upgraded to a 'Zhejiang Province Level 1 Standard Archives,' becoming the seventh in the province and the first in
Taizhou City to achieve this status. In June of the same year, the County Archives Bureau of Yuhuan was designated as a department at the division chief level, under the management of the Yuhuan County Committee of the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Subsequently, the Archives became an 'Advanced Unit in Promoting 'Safe Zhejiang' Construction in Zhejiang Province's Archive System' and an 'Advanced Unit in Rural Archive Information Sharing Work in Zhejiang Province'. In June 2003, in order to scientifically utilize archives, Yuhuan issued the 'Management Measures for Major Event Archives in Yuhuan County,' which stipulated that the archives of major events should be transferred to the county archives. In December 2005, the
Yuhuan County Committee of the CCP and the County Government decided to designate County Archives of Yuhuan as a place for the public disclosure of government information, to be used for publicizing government information. In 2011, the County Archives of Yuhuan new building project was included in the '
Twelfth Five-Year Plan' for the national economy and social development of Yuhuan. In 2013, based on becoming a 'Zhejiang Province Model County for Archives Work in the Construction of Socialism's New Rural Areas', The Archives were required to complete the transfer of over 10,000 volumes of archives. After concerted efforts, on December 26, the county successfully passed the inspection by the 'National Demonstration County for Archives Work in the Construction of Socialism's New Rural Areas National Acceptance Team' and received this honor. As a result, County Archives of Yuhuan achieved its first national-level recognition. On the morning of September 11, 2017, the ceremony for the new building of City Archives of Yuhuan was held, marking the beginning of this project. After approximately two years of construction, the new building was officially accepted in August 2019. The relocation process began on November 5, 2019, and was completed on January 5, 2020. Three days later, during the Fourth Plenary Session of the Fifteenth Congress of the CCP Yuhuan Municipal Committee, the commissioning of the new archive building was included in the working report of the Yuhuan Municipal Committee of the CCP. == Building ==