From 12th to 14th of October, 2015, the fifth Ningde Global Geopark’s symposium on “root in community” was held in Nanping county, Fujian province. Zhangjiajie Global Geopark as the sister park attended the symposium and gave a speech about “root in native community, integrate folk customs, create tourist resort”.
This symposium aims at giving full play to global geoparks’ function of exhibition, publicity and education, enhancing geoparks’ relevancy with social groups, exhibiting geoparks’ periodical achievements in capacity building and development, exploring the cultural connotation of global geoparks, and learning advanced managerial concept. Experts form ho me and abroad, including Guy Marini from the Executive Bureau of Global Geopark Network, Ms Tracy. Ivan Kappa from British Riviera Global Geopark, Professor Xiaoping Cui, etc, got together to discuss the interdependency of global geoparks and local communities.
At the workshop, Doctor Tong Guanghui from Zhangjiajie UNESCO Global Geopark made a report on geoheritage protection, cultural heritage publicity, science popularization, development of tourism products as well as the experiences of Zhangjiajie UNESCO Global Geopark.
After the workshop, representatives made a field research in the Baishuiyang Geo-region and had a profound and extensive discussion on the future development of Ningde UNESCO Global Geopark.
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