4. Natural relics with significant scientific and cultural value, such as the geological tectonics, famous karst caves, fossil-distributed areas, glaciers, volcanoes and hot springs.
5. Other natural areas that need special protection approved by the government of the province, municipality and autonomous region.
Article 11 Natural reserves can be divided into national natural reserves and local natural reserves.
Natural reserves with typical meanings, international scientific influences or special scientific research value, both home and abroad, are listed as national natural reserves.
Apart from the ones listed as national natural reserves, other natural reserves with typical meanings and significant scientific research value are listed as local natural reserves. Local natural reserves can be managed at different levels. Specific approaches to management shall be decided by the administrative section of the State Council or the people's government of the province, municipality or the autonomous region according to their specific situation, and recorded by the State Council.
Article 12 The establishment of national natural reserves shall be applied by the people's government of the province, municipality or autonomous region, or the relevant section of the State Council under whose administration natural reserves may fall; the process shall be evaluated by the national natural reserves evaluating committee, coordinated and advised by the environmental protection section of the State Council and approved by the State Council.
The establishment of local natural reserves shall be applied by the government of the county, city or autonomous prefecture where the natural reserves are located, or the environmental protection section of the province, municipality or autonomous region. The process shall be evaluated by the local natural reserves evaluating committee, coordinated and advised by the responsible sections of the environmental protection of the people's government of the province, municipality or the autonomous region, and approved by the people's government of the province, municipality or autonomous region, and recorded by the relevant natural reserves section and the environmental protection section of the State Council.
The establishment of natural reserves, which covers more than two administrative regions, shall be applied after the coordination of the relevant people's governments, then followed according to the procedures outlined above.
The establishment of maritime natural reserves shall be approved by the State Council.
Article 13 The application for the establishment of natural reserves shall be submitted according to relevant regulations of the State.
Article 14 The region and broader line of natural reserves shall be clarified by the people's government that approved the establishment and be set up with landmarks. When affirming the region and broader line, the applicability of the protected objects and the need of the economic construction and people's lives shall be taken into consideration.
Article 15 A dismantling or change in the form, scope or borderline of natural reserves shall be approved by the people's government that approved the establishment of the reserves.
No agency or individual is permitted to move the landmark of the natural reserves.
Article 16 Natural reserves are named according to the following principles:
National natural reserves include the name of the location of the natural reserves plustheNational Natural Reserves.
Local natural reserves include the name of the location of the natural reserves plus theLocal Natural Reserves.
For natural reserves with special-protected objects the name of the special-protection objects can be added after the name of the reserve's location.
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