This paper, as a response to Chinas two policies regarding resourcesbased cities and tourism industry, reviews the research advances of tourism development of resourcesbased cities, and classifies its developing stages. The overseas research is concentrating on industrial tourism, industrial heritage tourism and industrial production tourism, while the domestic research has entered a higher level, from concrete to abstract, from qualitative to quantitative, with focus on global comparison, relation between resourcesbased cities transformation and tourism development, single case, developing mechanism and path, evaluation system and developing mode. This paper presents outlooks for future research. 

To establish geological parks and to survey and assess the geological heritages is a new way to protect them. This paper, based on a detailed survey of geological heritages in Xinglong county and a classification, studies the features and genesis of geological heritages such as Wulingshan magma, karst, benthal black chimney. By means of the nearest point index, the spatial distribution of geological heritages has been analyzed, indicating a clustering. This paper assesses the values of geological heritages from scientific research, education, environmental protection and tourism, discusses the existing issues and presents approaches.