Community archives refers to collections of material that record the history of a community formed by members of a specific community with common identity characteristics. Strengthening the construction of community archives can meet the spiritual and cultural needs of the people,promote social progress,facilitate the diversified development of society,and expand the archives work functions. However,the construction of community archives in China faces physical dilemmas,cultural predicaments,ideological dilemmas and identity dilemmas. The changes of international archival community’s understanding of community archives reveal to us that the active construction of community members is crucial in the process of building community archives,the archivists’“process guide”and“front-end guidance”are more and more critical,the value form of community archives is closely related to social inclusion,and cooperation should be actively promoted. Therefore,in the current domestic environment, the further construction of community archives should be based on the realization of the memory value of community archives,create a“union”of community archives,pursue the development of discipline integration and explore the community archives with Chinese characteristics.