This paper is the result of geological heritage survey engineering.

Objective Geological and cultural villages are an innovative product emerging with the new era of development of geological heritage protection, geological tourism and rural revitalization, and are still little known compared with beautiful villages and rural tourism demonstration villages. As a newly-emerged thing, understanding its scientific connotation, construction content and implementation path is very urgent and necessary.

Methods Taking the construction of Yujiazhai Geological and Cultural Village in Yunzhou District, Datong City, as an example, to conduct a comprehensive survey of the geological heritage, land resources, natural environment and social and human resources of Yujiazhai Village and its surroundings.

Results The geological characteristics of Yujiazhai Geological and Cultural Village are outstanding, and the composite landform contains Quaternary basalt, strontium-rich land, natural springs, etc. The special geography, humanities and history of the village, create a geological and cultural village of "geological and eco-tourism".

Conclusions Yujiazhai Village takes use of its abundant geological resources, integrates unique landform landscape and profound humanistic history, and lays the foundation for the geological and cultural village. By integrating geological heritage, historical and humanistic and characteristic agricultural products (strontium-rich yellow flower) resources, a tourism product system integrating agricultural tourism, geological education and natural science popularization has been established. In the development process, the protection of geological heritage resources is taken as the starting point, avoiding "large-scale construction", and exploring a development system with regional coordination and complementary functions in the future, so as to help it develop in the direction of improving environmental governance system, sound infrastructure and reasonable industrial structure.