Abstract: Through an analyses of factors such as their geographical distributions，ranking stratifications，imperial civil service examination backgrounds，this article finds that the geographic origins of officials who had audiences with the emperor became more and more imbalanced from higher to lower Administrative Region． The Jiangnan and the capital regions were the two most significant core areas for personnel recruitment． Manchu bannermen and officials from
Hangzhou prefecture also enjoyed higher status during the Qianlong reign than during the Yongzheng reign，which the official clerks who were in charge of Manchu-Chinese paperwork received higher priority during the Qianlong reign．The article also argues that while the ratio of successful examinees with imperial audience was higher during theQianlong reign than during the Yongzheng reign，the middle and upper officials successful from the lowest rank such as gongsheng had a higher ratio of success than jinshi and juren． All the analyses demonstrate that the bannermen andthose from the capital areas received priorities for recruitment．