Industrial heritage at China’s new national mine parks, and its role in economic, cultural, and ecological regeneration, is the topic of this project. Since 2005 seventy-two inoperative state-owned coal, mineral, and oil shale mines have been designated as parks, a massive heritage initiative that is virtually unstudied. This state-sanctioned, commercially-oriented redevelopment is intended to attract tourist spending and new business to municipalities with underperforming economies and degraded environments. It is also part of China’s program to build an “ecological civilization” that balances economic growth, environmental protection, and concern for people’s quality of life. If China’s national mine parks follow the trends found at industrial heritage sites around the world, they offer interpretations and experiences that “improve” history and nature for visitors by displacing the political and economic decisions that caused environmental pollution, layoffs, and socioeconomic decline. I propose to conceptualize industrial heritage as a material and interpretive process of gentrification, investigating the experiences these former mines create for tourists about industry, nature, history, and consumption, and the role they play in regenerating cities suffering from the closure of extractive industries. I will use a mixed methods approach that combines archival research, participant observation, and interviews to analyze industrial heritage at seven national mine parks.