地方志编修的上层设计指国家的设计。中国编修地方志的上层设计主要是解决几十年来未解决的设置省部级直接隶属国务院的国家地方志工作机构。国家大部制改革,中国地方志指导小组办公室应和若干业务相近的部门整合成一个正省部级直接隶属国务院的国家史志机构。地方志工作机构具有执法的行政职能,应执行公务员工资制度。全国应统一规定每轮三级地方志书的记述上下限,改变过去随意定省、市、县三级地方志书记述上下限的现象。 Local records compiled by the upper design refers to the design of the country. The top-level design of China’s local choreographies is mainly aimed at solving the problem of setting up provincial and municipal government agencies directly under the State Council at provincial and ministerial levels that have not been solved for decades. In the reform of the state ministry system, the office of the Chinese gazetteer steering group should be integrated with a number of departments with similar businesses into one that is directly under the State Council at the provincial and ministerial level. Local history work agencies have the administrative functions of law enforcement, civil servants should payroll system. The whole country should uniformly stipulate the upper and lower limits of the records of each grade of three local chorography books and change the description of the upper and lower limits of the random selection of local chorography books on the provincial, municipal and county levels in the past.