Geological heritages,important resources with aesthetic value,scientific value,and great conservation value,have aroused more and more attention from the fields of geonomy and tourism science.During the conservation and exploitation of the geological heritage,the contradiction between the community development and geological heritage conservation and development become increasingly prominent.It is crucial for geological heritage conservation and development to get support from the original inhabitants.It becomes an important issue whether and how the original inhabitants can participate in geological heritage development. Based on the typical case of the Huayingshan grand canyon geo-park,this paper investigated the present situation of community participation and the wishes of the original inhabitants in the geo-park by questionnaire and interview,and analyzed their attitude towards the heritage conservation and development,as well as the interest demands from it.The survey showed that,during the heritage conservation and development,the chances of community participation are very limited,but they show strong desire to participate in decision-making,planning,business operations,and hope to share the benefits of the resource exploitation,besides,they expect to get indemnity from the government and development enterprise.Under the existing management system,this paper constructed a community participation model system on geological heritage development,including geological heritage conservation(mainly environmental protection),planning and decision making,business operation,distribution of benefits and community participation indemnity.The model system fully takes into account the interest of the government,development enterprise and community inhabitants,thus provides a theoretical and practical reference for the study of community participation in geological heritage conservation and development.