This session will present an innovative project on preservation of the private and public archives of Jinping Manuscripts (also known as "Jinping Old Forestry Contract Manuscripts" or "Qingshuijiang Manuscripts"), a globally unique and important documentary heritage that has graciously survived on China's southwest ethnic frontier. It aims to provide a platform for the panelists to exchange ideas and share experiences with archival professionals from all over the world, with an emphasis on exploring opportunities and directions for further improvements of the project in light of the principles of the UNESCO Memory of the World Program and the UN-FAO initiative on the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS). The project to be presented in the session involves multi-stakeholders including local governments, archival organizations, universities, libraries, NGOs, and particularly the communities who hold a large quantity of endangered Jinping Manuscripts. It is estimated that approximately 300,000 old forestry contracts are still remaining but found seriously endangered along the Qingshuijiang River Valley in Guizhou Province of China. In the GIAHS initiative launched in 2002 by the FAO in collaboration with UNESCO and UNPD, the agroforestry traditions existed or surviving in some places of the world have been identified and defined as one of the globally important agricultural heritage systems that deserve full recognition and dynamic conservation for the future. Comparing with the agroforestry heritage systems elsewhere, the agroforestry system developed four-hundred years ago among the Kam (Dong) and Hmong (Miao) peoples in Guizhou Province of China is the only one that was well documented in such an enormous quantity of old contract manuscripts. In this sense, what the project aims to preserve is not just a documentary heritage of China, but an extraordinary living memory of one of the world's longest genuine agroforestry traditions.