Geopark, an emerging mechanism in this century, plays a key role in geoheritage conservation,science popularization and regional sustainable development.It takes geoheritage as a special natural resource for reasonable protection and utilization.Geoparks in China take the form of provincial geoparks,national geoparks and global geoparks.There are certain similarities and conspicuous differences in philosophy, management,criteria and goals between them. Insufficient attention paid on them resulted in many problems in the past 20 years.This paper analyzes the similarities and differences between the Chinese national geopark and UNESCO global geopark, points out the historical and ideological causes of them,and provides the possible resolutions to overcome the problems.