Archives administrative guidance can be divided into different categories according to different standards. These standards mainly include function, mode and the counterpart is particular or not, with or without concrete legal basis, whether at the request of the counterpart, the relationship between the subject of administrative guidance and the counterpart, the relief of administrative guidance act, the level of administrative guidance, whether administrative guidance should have certain legal form,and the area of administrative function. The classification methods are not only opposite, but also compatible and overlapping to some extent. It favors that we gain an overall and objective understanding on archives administrative guidance to classify and explain it from a different perspective.