Wangwushan-Daimeishan UGGp is located in Jiyuan City and Xin’an County at the northwest part of Henan Province with an area of 986km2 and became a member of the Global Geoparks Network in 2006.
It is a comprehensive geopark, features the geoheritages as geological section, landform landscape and paleontology fossils, shining with animal, plant resources, and historical culture: The system of Tiantan Mountain geological structure section reflects the geological evolutionary history since 2.5 billion years, Xiaogoubei -Yinhe Valley show the charm of paleo volcano 1.7 billion years ago; Balixia Valley on the Yellow River is the key point during the Running through of the Yellow River ; The group of red stone valleys in Daimeishan can be said to be the gallery of mountains and waterscape, as is also the natural museum of ripple marks and mud cracks; Mammal-Iike fossil in Late Paleozoic and trace fossil in Mesozoic around Fengmenkou area have the significance of global correlation.
More than 1000 kinds of plants live in the geopark, known as the “gene base of seed plants in North China” lives in the geopark. The charmingly naive Taihang Macaque is the spirit in the mountain; the sprite of Yugong moving mountains constitutes valuable spiritual wealth, and forms the unyielding national soul of China.
