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What is the Main Purpose of Establishing a Geopark
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1. Protect geological relics and protect the natural environment

Geological relics are the life relics and geological structure relics preserved in rock formations with ornamental value and great scientific value formed in the geological historical period under the action of internal and external geological forces. Geological relics are physical evidence of the history of the evolution of the earth, which are of great scientific value and non-renewable, so they must be strictly protected, and the establishment of geoparks is one of the best measures to protect geological heritage sites.


2. Disseminate earth science knowledge to the public and promote the improvement of public scientific literacy

Since the Geopark is mainly composed of many typical geological relics, and these ruins contain extremely rich scientific information on the evolution of the earth, the Geopark is a natural classroom for transmitting earth science knowledge to tourists. To this end, it is required that each geopark must build scientific interpretation facilities and be equipped with a certain number of commentators, so that tourists can obtain a lot of earth science knowledge in the process of sightseeing and sightseeing, so that their scientific literacy can be improved to a certain extent.


3. Actively carry out geological tourism to promote the sustainable development of local economy and society

Tourism is an extremely important economic industry, its output value has surpassed all industries to become the world's largest industry. Open to the public, the development of geotourism activities is a major task of the geopark, most of the geoparks are in the mountains far from the city, the economy is underdeveloped, often lack of other resources, through the development of geotourism to promote the employment of residents in the communities around the park, promote local economic development. Therefore, the establishment of geoparks is the best way to promote the people of poor mountainous areas to get rid of poverty and become rich.


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