Local archives legislation is an important content of the system construction of laws and regulations of archives, and the legal support to promote the legalization and standardization of local archives governance. Taking the current 31 provincial local laws and regulations as the analysis sample, the local archives legislation presents the following characteristics: the names of laws and regulations are diverse, most of which are "regulations"; the ways to modify laws and regulations are difference, mainly "amendment"; the structures of laws and regulations are diversified, taking "large and comprehensive" as the criterion. Although the above legislation ensures the orderly promotion of local archives governance to a certain extent, there are also some problems, such as simple repetition between legislative texts, anomie of legislative language and sentence expression, failure of legislative purpose to reflect the informatization of archives governance, lack of local characteristics of legislative content and so on. The improvement of local archives legislation in the future should strengthen the pre legislative review and post legislative quality and effect evaluation to improve the quality of archives legislation, strengthen the study of Legislative Technical Norms to standardize the legislative language and sentence expression, reshape the legislative purpose and provisions to show the informatization goal of archives governance, and add characteristics and creative provisions based on the needs of local archives governance.