Abstract:Since their birth, national parks have continuously spread and developed in the world,and have formed different national park systems with their own characteristics,which have a positive reference for the construction of Chinese protected area system based on national parks. By sorting out the emergence of national parks and their spread and development around the world,it is concluded that the development of national parks can be divided into three stages: the stage of spread among the British Commonwealth countries from the 1870s to the end of the 19th century,the stage of popularization in European developed countries and spread to the colonial countries of Asia,Africa and Latin America from the early 20th to the late 1940s, the stage of globalizing spread since the 1950s.Based on the analysis of three representative cases in different stages of Banff National Park in Canada,Kruger National Park in South Africa and Cairngorms National Park in Scotland,this paper puts forward suggestions for the construction of national parks in China: controlling construction activities strictly,compiling negative list,strengthening community participation and developing business moderately.