The Second International Forum was held from 27-29 May 2011 at the site of the beautiful Taining World Geopark (Taining, Fujian, China). The three-day forum focused on promoting capacity building and sustainable development in the management of Geoparks. 50 participants from 5 countries attended the forum.

The participants passed the Towards Sustainable Development---Recommendation of Actions for Geoparks, ,also is called Taining Declaration and it was published and acknowledged by IGU executive board.