关键词: 地质公园, 地质遗迹, 保护网络

Abstract: At present, the spatial systems of geoparks of China are formed basing on official declaration systems from bottom-up process. Thus there exist several problems, such as the illogical distribution and the insufficient scientific foundation of the category system. Therefore the evaluation and guidance for their representative, proportionality, and reliability from macro scale are weak. After the introduction of the world trend to establish the conservation network of natural heritage, this paper summarizes some factors that play important role for the spatial distribution of geoparks of China: from their relevance with natural geographical patterns, geological zones and administration divisions, to the resource investigation, overlap of various nature reserves, the social-economic influences and the political recognition, etc. Finally it puts forward some suggestions to improve the efficiency of conservation network of geological sites of China: stress on the top-down evaluation and guidance that are complementary of the bottom-up declaration process; reinforce geological resource investigation and find the conservation gap; toward the network conservation model; establish the cooperative administration platforms for multilevel geo-network.

Key words: geopark, geological relics, conservation network