Perspectives on establishment of grassland national parks in China

Grassland national parks established by the Chinese central government refers to the special protection, management and utilization grassland regions, which focus on conservation on integrity of one or a plurality of typical grassland ecosystem and providing the places for grassland eco-tourism, grassland science research and grassland environmental education. The better top-layer design was necessary to gear international standards and Chinese national condition for establishment of grassland national park. The establishment of grassland national park in China should consider five functions, which were protection, scientific research, education, tourism and regional development. According to environmentally carrying capacity, tourist numbers and construction of infrastructure facilities, grassland national park would be divided into strict protected area, environmental conservation area, tourist area and community participation area, and then it need to manage each division with different policies. At the same time, perfect legislation, management system, entering system, diversified investment mechanism and ecological compensation mechanism should be established as soon as possible to ensure the healthy operation of the grassland national park.