Abstract: This article outlines the actual conditions of old Chinese annals and most new local chronicles of the province,city and county levels not making index and being lagging seriously in the indexing work,discusses the necessity and the feasibility of popularizing the content index in compiling local chronicles,and advocates strongly that we must take index as a style of literature for annals and instituting the new compiling regulation of eight types running parallel and giving first place to annals type.

Key words: local chronicles; index; compiling regulation of eight types running parallel; index-compiling with computer-aided