Abstract: In recent years, with the maturity of protection consciousness of the land naturaland culturalresources. The discussion related to the concept connotation, construction standards, operating system and other issues of the “National Park” has become increasingly intense. The thought of Chinese “National Park” can be traced back to modern times. This paper investigates a lot of historical materials such as newspapers, reports and books of modern times, and clarifies the “propagation-introduction-translation” evolution processes and staging characteristics of the modern “National Park” thought. This research analyzes the cognition and practice of “National Park” in China, based on the foreign (the United States, Great Britain, Japan, etc.) empirical case and the early conception of China (Taihu Lake, Lushan Mountain, etc), in order to trace the source of the “National Park”, regulate its development venation and provide a historical reference and judgment basis for the modern discussion.