This paper is the result of geological survey engineering.

Objective Faced with a new era, new contradictions, new ideas and new goals established since the 19th CPC National Congress, the geological survey has been transformed from a single-resource survey to a multi-type survey of natural resources.

Methods In response to the new demands, our team introduced the principle of tourism earth-science into the mine and geological survey, when we carried out the 1:50, 000 mine mapping work in the natural environment fragile northern Tibet, and divided the geological tourism resources of the properties of the local.

Results Through a detailed field survey, it was found that the tourism resources of different attributes in the study area are extremely abundant, and most of these resources are in an initially undeveloped state. These geological tourism resources to be developed cover the standard geological profile and the fossil origin; rocks, geological structures and minerals of special protection value; natural ecological landscape resources; geological phenomena of special economic, medical, popular science and educational value. According to the different attributes of geological tourism resources, preliminary planning is carried out in the five aspects of natural historical relics landscape and human historical relics, and suggestions for rational development and protection are put forward.

Conclusions For the first time, the survey results of tourism geological resources were reported as part of the regional mineral and geological survey results, and some suggestions are made for comprehensive geological survey work, which also provided support for consolidating the achievements of poverty alleviation.