Sanqingshan UNESCO Global Geopark

Sanqingshan UNESCO Global Geopark, a natural geographic area in the southeast of China, is mainly composed of Mesozoic granite and Paleozoic stratum with rich geosites and unique geological landforms, and is located in the junction of Yangtz Plate and Huaxia Ancient Plate, the southeast of Eurasian Plate and active area of Pacific Plate.

The geopark just like a great work of earth science records 880 million years evolution history of earth and remains valuable geosites of many disciplines such as sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleontology, petrology, geotectology, geodynamics and geomorphology; it preserves valuable and rare biocenosis of 200-million-year evolution history as a original ecological biological park; it keeps granite micro-topography phenomenon of all types, typical characteristics and centralized distribution. It is also a natural museum of granite geological geomorphology and the typical example of world landscape of granite mountains and peaks due to the unique landscape forms and the outstanding natural beauty showed by the magical integration of granite landform, ecology and atmosphere; it owns rich cultural heritage in the 1000-year-joint-development history between humanity and nature, especially that the ancient building sites, created according to Chinese Taoism idea that human is an integral part of nature, are honored as the open-air museum of China Taoism ancient buildings.

In September, 2017, a sister Park was established with Wangwushan-Daimeishan UNESCO World Geopark.