In which year were the first national parks officially established?

The first batch of national parks will be officially established in 2021.

On October 12, 2021, my country officially established the first batch of national parks such as Sanjiangyuan, Giant Panda, Siberian Tiger and Leopard, Hainan Tropical Rainforest, and Wuyi Mountain. National parks refer to specific land or sea areas that are approved and managed by the state, with clear boundaries, with the main purpose of protecting large-scale natural ecosystems that are nationally representative, and achieving scientific protection and rational utilization of natural resources.

What are the highlights of each of the first batch of national parks?

Sanjiangyuan National Park is located in the hinterland of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is the birthplace of the Yangtze River, Yellow River, and Lancang River. It is known as the "Chinese Water Tower" and has glaciers and snow-capped mountains, high-altitude wetlands, Gobi deserts, alpine grassland meadows, etc. The alpine ecosystem is an important ecological security barrier for the country.

The Giant Panda National Park spans Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces and preserves a habitat area of ??15,000 square kilometers for giant pandas, accounting for 58.48% of the country’s giant panda habitat area. There are 1,340 wild giant pandas distributed there. Only one, accounting for 71.89% of the total wild giant pandas in the country, is the world's biodiversity hotspot.

The Siberian Tiger and Leopard National Park is located in the center of the temperate coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forest ecosystem in Asia. It is the settlement and breeding area for the largest and only wild Siberian tiger and Siberian leopard populations in my country with breeding families.

Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park has the most concentrated, diverse, best-preserved, and largest contiguous continental island-type tropical rainforest in my country. It is the only distribution area of ??Hainan Gibbon in the world and is also a tropical species. A treasure trove of diversity.