Beijing time at 3 a.m. on September 21, it is reported from the 11th European geopark conference held in the Portuguese Aloka Global Geopark that Sanqingshan UNESCO Global Geopark of China passed the review by the UNESCO Global geopark Executive Board to be formally included in the UNESCO Global Geoparks Network directory, and got the title of "Sanqingshan UNESCO Global Geopark". This was another world class brand after Sanqingshan successfully declared the "world natural heritage" in 2008.

Sanqingshan was the only scenic spot China declared and successfully obtained the title this year. The secretary of the party committee of Sanqingshan Scenic Area, Liu Shuzong, who traveled to Portugal to participate the conference, said on the telephone, globally a total of 11 regions declared the global geopark, 7 regions in which passed the vote of the conference, Sanqingshan was the only scenic spot China declared in 2012 and successfully obtained the title of "Global Geopark".

There are Huangshan, Lushan, Longhushan, Tianzhushan, Tianmushan and many other global geoparks around Sanqingshan. In accordance with the relevant provisions of the declaration of the global geopark, the new global geopark shall not be reviewed within 100 km of the existing global geopark, and the spot within 200 km can only get half of the score in the review.

Faced with the difficult challenges, Sanqingshan cooperated with Beijing University, China University of Geosciences and other domestic authoritative institutions successively, compiled and completed the International Comparative Study on the Geological Landform of Sanqingshan Granite and other research results, and collected more than 6,000 pictures, and technical material of nearly 1.2 million words, providing powerful scientific and technological support for the declaration work.

In recent years, experts from home and abroad invited to Sanqingshan for in-situ research think Sanqingshan has recorded the evolutionary history of the earth for billions of years, it has had the geological landscape value rare to see in the world and unparalleled natural beauty, it was a granite micro landform natural museum of world value, and it was declared for global geopark with excellent conditions.