The filing of official documents refers to the process that the document processing departments of organs, organizations, enterprises and institutions classify, sort out, catalogue and orderly hand over the documents with the value of finding and preserving according to the natural laws and characteristics in the process of their formation, and then hand them over to archives or archivists.

Principles for filing official documents:

1. Filing should follow the law of file formation and keep the organic connection between files.

2. Different values should be distinguished when filing, which is convenient for storage and use.

3. Filing should meet the requirements of integrated file management, which is convenient for computer management or computer-aided management.

4. Filing should ensure the coordination and unification of paper documents and electronic documents.