At the beginning of the 21st century, State Archives Administration raised the human-oriented ideology as the guiding thought of archival work, after which some scholars discussed the human-oriented archival documents compilation. However, historically, how to deal with the problem of human in the China’s archival documents compilation practice has come through a long development process from the backstage to the onstage. This paper tries to trace the sources and courses of the human problem in the archival documents compilation, and analyses the human-oriented ideology evolution at present and its practical barrier. Finally, the author expounds the value concept of human-oriented from a perspective of the archival documents compilation .