On January 13th, 2007, the Administrative Bureau of Alxa Desert National Geopark was established formally. It indicated that the management and construction of the bureau got into a new stage. People who were invited to attend the opening ceremony including Li Minglu, the Division Chief of Department of Geological Environment in the Ministry of Land and Resources,Zhang Youen, the deputy secretaries of the league, Gong Jiadong, the deputy leader of administrative office of the league, Zhang Xiaoyou,the league assistant, the professor Tian Mingzhong coming form the Investigation and Evaluation Center of China University of Geosciences.
The Alxa Desert National Geopark was approved as the autonomous region desert geopark in November 2004, and as the desert geopark in August 2005 by the Ministry of Land and Resources. The main responsibilities of the bureau is taking charge of the unified management of the Alxa Desert Geopark’s resources protection, development and construction, business services, research, and tourism.


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