Regulations on the Implementation of the Archives Law of the People's Republic of China require townships to establish archival work norms that safeguard the proper exercise of archival administrative law enforcement powers, but the reality is that township governments basically do not possess archival administrative law enforcement powers, which has led to a dilemma in which they face an imbalance of powers and responsibilities, have no choice but to adopt alternative practices, and find it difficult to form a synergistic mechanism for archival governance. Archival violations can result in significant risks of damage to interests and serious consequences in a short period of time, so there is an urgent need to allocate archival administrative law enforcement powers to township governments to alleviate the pressure of law enforcement, and the township governments do in fact have the capacity to take over archival administrative law enforcement powers. The township configuration of archives administrative law enforcement power needs to follow the basic requirements of symmetry of power and responsibility and achieve the substantive goal of optimal efficiency. In the specific configuration of the need to access to information and minor sanctions category archives law enforcement rights allocated to the township government, and in the short term to take entrusted or indirect authorization, but long-term empowerment must be revised legal provisions, in addition to the comprehensive law enforcement team and archives management department of the joint law enforcement can be used as the township archives administrative law enforcement rights of the operation of the security.