Zhangye UGGp Participated in the Online “Landscape Salon”

On November 28, 2022, the 17th "Landscape Salon" Session of the Tourism Geoscience and Geopark Research Branch of the Geological Society of China was held online. Professor Zhang Jianping made a special report on "List of the First 100 IUGS Geological Heritage Sites and Its Significance". Representatives of Zhangye UGGp participated online.

Among the first 100 IUGS Geological Heritage Sites announced in 2022, 7 geological heritage sites are in China, including the Ordovician rocks of the Mount Everest, Permian-Triassic great extinction and GSSPs of Meishan, Cambrian Chengjiang Fossil Site and Lagerstätte, Early Cretaceous Rhyolitic Columnar Rock Formation of Hong Kong, the South Tibetan Detachment System in the Rongbuk Valley, Shilin Karst, and Bilutu megadunes and lakes in the Badain Jaran Desert.