Changde is a cultural city with two thousand years' history.It is also one of the cities in the Pan-Dongting Lake Ecologicai Economic Region with extreme rich in wetland resources. Accordingto the report of the second nation-wide wetland inventory, total wetland area of Changde City is 19.01million hectares, which accounts for 10.44% of the city's surface area. Among the wetland,9.15 million hectares are lakes,5.2million hectares are river,3.99 million hectares are artifcial wetlands and 0.67 million hectares are swamnp wetlands ，with total protected area of 13.33 million hectares which covers 70.15% of the total wetlands in the city. To protect wetlands,one RAMSR site,e.g.,Hu-nan WestDongting Lake National Nature Reserve and 8 national nan wetland parks:
Maoli Lake National Wetland Park,
Yuanshui National Wetland Park,
Shuyuanzhou National Wetland Park,
Cenhuai National Wetland Park,
Niaoerzhou National Wetland Park,
Xianyang Lake National Wetland Park,
Xifeng lake NationalWetland Park
Dao River National Wetland Park and have been established.
