Abstract:
The establishment of a national park system is a major institutional innovation to promote the construction of ecological civilization and the construction of a beautiful China. It is also an important initiative to shift China′s protected areas from rapid quantitative growth to high-quality development. According to the unified national deployment, by 2035 China will establish 49 national parks. Despite the current high level of motivation of the candidate national parks, the creation and establishment of national parks in general is still faced with the lack of a systematic plan, irrational division of establishment procedures and construction tasks, unclear requirements and criteria for each phase of creation and establishment, and the lack of a smooth connection between financial and policy support and actual needs. To implement the requirement of "comprehensively promoting the construction of a nature reserve system with national parks as the main body" put forward by the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, it is recommended to formulate a plan for the creation and establishment of national parks, rationally divide the establishment procedures and construction tasks, clarify the requirements and criteria of tasks at different stages, improve the methods for the use and management of funds, strengthen basic research and improve the assessment mechanism for national parks.