From 1984 till now, there are 8 different types, different levels of nature protection area established in Tianjin, the total lands cover 155,000 hectares and occupies 12.24% of Tianjin City national lands.

Ji County Nature protection Area (national level)
Locating in northern part of Ji County, the YAN mountain, it starts from the Great Wall and ends at north of YUYANG ancient city, the direction is from the north to the south. Total area is around 900 hectares. It is a special geological relic, just like one earth evolution album which truly recorded the earth evolution history of 1.8 -0.8 billion years ago.

BAXIAN Mountain Nature Protection Area (national level)
Locating in the northern part of Ji County which also is the southern part of Yan Mountain. It is the original forbidden place of Qing Royal tomb. The total area is 1049 hectares. There are 1000 different kinds of propagation, and 100 of them are in extinction status. The main protection object is natural forest environment, wild propagation resources, biology Gene storeroom. All of them have highly important scientific value on the investigation about the ecology system forming and evolving rules of Chinese temperate zone forest.

Ancient sea coast and swamp natural protection area (national level)
Locating in the east of Tianjin city and western coast of Bohai Bay. It consists of shell bank, oyster shoal and QILI sea swamp. Total area is 99.00 hectares. The shell bank relic of BinHai plain truly recorded of the earth evolution, which is also the crucial evidences of the coast change between the sea and the continent. It is called “the Natural Museum? It is one of the particular areas for international cooperative investigation on oceanography, geology, geography, meteorology, and swamp ecology.