Abstract: Zoning holds a crucial role in the planning and management of national parks, providing an effective approach to balancing ecological protection and utilization. This paper systematically explores zoning models and their conceptual origins in both domestic and international contexts through literature analysis, and summarizes relevant zoning criteria and methods. The study reveals that: (1) The zoning concept of national parks abroad has undergone a transformation from anthropocentrism to nature-centrism, and then to the harmonious development of human and land. In China, during the introduction, translation and development of the idea of national park zoning, the local ecological wisdom of "harmony between humans and nature" was combined, and national parks were regarded as an important carrier of ecological civilization construction. The "core protection area-general control area" binary zoning method was innovatively proposed. (2) In assessing national park zoning, single-indicator methods include species indication, focusing on flagship species or core resources, and landscape zoning, emphasizing the protection of regional characteristics. The comprehensive evaluation method uses a variety of indicators, which helps to strike a balance between protection priority and reasonable utilization. (3) Future research on national park zoning should focus on three aspects: basic support, method integration, and model optimization, including 1) promoting interdisciplinary collaboration to build a theoretical framework from the perspective of human-land harmony, 2) enhancing the specificity of zoning assessment indicators and advancing technological applications, and 3) proposing improvement suggestions for the binary zoning method to provide guidance for the protection and sustainable use of national parks.