one of the first batch of national geoparks
 one of the forty top tourist attractions in china
 national aaaa tourist attraction
 national popular science educational base for teenagers
zigong dinosaur museum, 9 km northeast of the center of zigong, sichuan, is a large museum which has been built at the world-famous dashanpu dinosaur fauna. it is also the first professional dinosaur museum in china and one of the three largest dinosaur museums...

as an experimental program promoted by unesco and some other institutions, china national geopark program was first proposed in 1972 in the seventeenth unesco convention convened in paris, france. it was formally started in 1989. in august, 2000, mechanism of the declaration and judgments of the national geopark was established by china ministry of land and resources. up to now, there are 138 national geoparks in china. in april, 2001, zigong dinosaur national geopark was listed as one...