Objectives National parks are an important spatial means in the strategy of ecological civilization construction. Clarifying the problems existing in the development process of national parks is of key significance to realizing the goal of "beautiful China" and promoting the high-quality development of national parks.

Methods Based on on-the-spot investigation, literature review and other methods, this paper analyzes the problems in the actual construction and management process of officially established national parks and national parks being created in an all-round and multi-angle, and puts forward relevant solutions based on the problems.

Results The study found that national parks are still faced with some problems, such as less basic research, the operation coordination mechanism among various elements of the natural ecosystem needs to be further clarified, the cross-administrative management mechanism needs to be further coordinated, and the natural resources need to be further identified. Based on the above problems, this study puts forward relevant suggestions such as strengthening basic research, building an efficient and unified monitoring system, promoting the construction of talent team, improving the cross-administrative management mechanism, and promoting the cross-integration of ecology and humanistic sociology.

Conclusions The main issue-oriented realization path proposed in this study provides the fundamental follow to effectively drive high-quality development of national parks and even the system of nature reserve.