Comparison between the Xingwen karst area and South China karst region on tourism resources

The most representative karst topography and landform in China is concentrated in the South China karst,and the Xinwen County which is located in the South China karst region has the intact karst landscapes rarely seen throughout the country.Its rich and unique karst landscapes were defined by professor Zhu Xuewen,a member of Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences,as "Xingwen-type karst".In order to summarize its comparative advantages,the comparative research methods and Delphi method combined with AHP methods are employed to compare Xinwen karst,World Natural Heritage South China Karst projects and their typical karst tourism resources,including tiankengs,caves and stone forests.The results show that there are karst resources of many types,abundant features,high quality,good combination and concentrated distribution as well as unique karst ecological Bo and Miao cultures in the karst basins of Xinwen County.And the "Xingwen-type karst" has the same representation as the seven representative sites of World Natural Heritage South China Karst,which makes its resource conditions that entry the world heritage to further improve World Natural Heritage South China Karst.