During Nov. 14-15, 2017, the annual meeting of global geoaprks of China was held at Fuding City of Fujian Province, hosted by Ningde UNESCO Global Geopark. The delegation of Zhangjijaie UNESCO Global Geopark participated in all the agendas of the meeting, actively communicated with other global geoaprks, and investigated the Ningde UNESCO Global Geopark. Through these activities, a great deal of the updated knowledge on the development of geoaprk networks and the experiences of those geoparks which have received revalidation not long ago have been learned.
photo
During the meeting, two new members of the Global Geoparks Network, Arxan and Keketuohai UNESCO Global Geoparks, presented detailed introductions of each geopark’s creation, development and management. Zhijindong Cave UNESCO Global Geopark shared experience on organizing the 5th Asia-Pacific Geoparks Network Symposium, while Ningde UNESCO Global Geopark detailed how the geopark helped poverty reduction in communities. In addition, Guangwushan geopark, Huanggang Dabieshan geopark and Shennongjia UNESCO Global Geopark gave detailed presentations on how they accepted evaluations for new global geoparks and for revalidation. Furthermore, new members of the evaluation experts of Global Geoparks Network shared their experience on revalidating global geoparks. Finally, Prof. HE Qingcheng, the executive director of the national geoparks network, presented a summary of the meeting and passed the meeting flag from Ningde Global Geopark to Yandangshan Global Geoaprk, the host of the next annual meeting of the global geoparks of China. |