公文有经济价值。这个命题,我曾在《试谈公文的经济价值作用》一文中作了说明(见《秘书之友》一九八七年第二期)。公文是一种可见的有内容的物质实体,其形式是它的内容的载体材料,其内容则是人们进行社会公务活动的精神产物的反映。公文的实质决定于它的内容。所以,公文就其形式而论,是没有经济价值的(指公文的社会经济效益而言),其经济价值决定于它的内容。 Official documents have economic value. This proposition, as I stated in my article “On the Economic Value of Official Documents,” (see Friends of the Secretary, 1987-298). Official document is a visible material entity whose content is the carrier of its content and whose content is the reflection of the spiritual product of people’s conduct of social public activities. The substance of the official document is determined by its content. Therefore, the official document in terms of its form has no economic value (referring to the social and economic benefits of the official document), and its economic value is determined by its content.