Knowledge of China’s meteorological conditions,which is essential for the further development of the meteorological work, is based upon the understanding of the local situation and history of meteorology in each province, municipality and autonomous region. Thus, weather services at the provincial level are now taking the responsibility of compiling the record books of regional meteorological affairs(QIXIANG ZHI).For lack of experiences in the work initiated just recently, it is necessary to establish both general and specific principles for the compilation. In order to meet this need,some general principles have been presented successively,but no specific principles have been suggested so far.In this paper, four general principles and five specific principles are advanced. The four general principles, such as, progressiveness, truthfulness, subordination and layout, are discussed in some detail. The five specific principles will be dealt with in a separate paper.