The Establishment and Development of Tourism Earth-science and Geopark, and Geoheritage Resources in China:Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences

In the early stage of the founding of Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, I started working here with the museum staff of Ministry of Geology (The Geological Museum of China), as a leader and one of the earliest researchers. During the 60 years, I witnessed the whole developing history of Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences. With the discipline advantage of Chinese Geological Sciences, and the convienient platform of Geological Society of China, the writer and other researchers applieded geosciences into tourism industry. Then, Tourism Earth-science was established, which combined geosciences and tourism; under the guidance of Tourism Earth-science, geopark construction suggestions and a whole set of implementation plan was proposed. Finally, geoparks were built after hard work; Geoheritage was the important geological resource to built geoparks to booste tourism, and the main research object of Tourism Earth-science. Tourism Earth-science and geopark were both originated by Chinese geoscience researchers, and one of the most important scientific researches of Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, with milestone significance in the development of Chinese geology study. In this paper, the following content was included, the historical backgrounds, research content, development process, construction status, and developing trend at home and abroad, as well as the classification, evaluation standard, development, distribution regularites, application and converstion status of the geoheritage resources, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences.