The construction of internet government services platform is an important path of the governments’ functional transformation, which has brought a certain impact on the archival work. Focusing on the existing changes and thinking about how to connect the archival department and the platform is an important part of the archival work in the new environment. This paper first reviews the evolution of Principle of Pertinence and Principle of Provenance, and then clarifies its motivations for the evolvement. Secondly, within the requirement framework of Chinese government reform into “decentralization, supervision and optimal service”, it analyzes the impacts on archival work brought by government services transition. Finally, this paper deeply reflects on the issues of archival provenance, and puts forward that a view of pertinence is significant to the records management in the environment of internet government services platform. Through the above research, the paper points out that the archival departments should actively face the changes of the front-end business activities, and the pertinence is the prominent feature of the internet government service platform, records management should focus on the pertinence.