Abstract: The author sketches the application of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) in China and Japan, and summarizes the valuable experience of the protection and development of Kunisaki Peninsula Usa Integrated Forestry, Agriculture and Fisheries System in Japan, such as high level of government publicity and civic participation, reasonable positioning of government and enterprises in protection, high degree of marketization of enterprises, and conveying important concepts by enriching experience activities. On this basis, the author puts forward suggestions for the protection and development of China’s GIAHS in terms of protection concepts, management mechanism and scientific popularization, in which, the focuses should be the dynamic protection and adaptive management of GIAHS, the establishment of an operation model of government and social capital cooperation with mutual benefit, benign interaction and sustainable development, and the strengthening of the internal and external publicity to raise the degree of public awareness and protect willingness of GIAHS.