On June 7, Tianzhushan UGGp carried out a science popularization lecture in Doumu Town. The lecture titled “The Geo-heritage of Tianzhushan UGGp and Brief Introduction of Qiuzhi Geological Cultural Village” was given by Mr. Wu Weiping, professor-level senior engineer of Geological Survey Institute of Anhui Province.

Mr. Gao Jianqiang, director of Tianzhushan Geopark Administrative Center, all cadres of Doumu Town, and key enterprises principals attended the course, which introduced abundant geo-heritage of Tianzhushan UGGp and Qiuzhi Geological Cultural Village, illustrated the profound culture of Qiuzhi Village and the background of applying for the first batch of geological cultural villages.

Recently, Qiuzhi Village was listed in the public summons as the only representative in Anqing City to apply for the first batch of geological cultural villages of China. Tianzhushan Geopark carried out field survey and the application work. Qiuzhi Village is located in the southern scientific investigation area of Tianzhushan UGGp, at the juncture between the eastern part of Dabieshan collision orogenic belt and Tancheng-Lujiang Fault Zone. Its northwest side is the world-famous Dabieshan ultrahigh pressure metamorphic belt, and its southeast side is Paleocene mammalian fossils in Qianshan Basin, which are world geo-heritage with great scientific research and science popularization value. The two important fossils Heomys orientalis and Mimotona wana discovered in Qiuzhi Village, Doumu Town, proved that rodents and lagomorphs are of the same origin, and they are both the ancestral types of rodents and lagomorphs, attracting wide attention of global scientists.