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Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding is located on Futoushan of northern suburb and about 10 km downtown from Chengdu. It was established in 1987 and opened to the public in 1995. The whole base covers an area of 106 hectares. As the development of the third project, the base’s total area will extend to 200 hectares. The panda base has not only dedicated itself to giant panda conservation, but has also made great efforts to combine natural scenery and man-made landscapes to create wonderful and humane living areas for giant pandas, red pandas, and other Chinese endangered animals. And the main aim is to increase the population of giant panda. With the constant effort in the name of environment protection now it is one of the most important bases of protection.

In the base you can get a close visit with panda. The panda living in there are given large naturalistic habitats and supplied with necessary facilities, including a fodder room, sleep quarters and medical station. The visitors can directly see the pandas frolicking on the grass without the iron bars as zoo. Around the base we can see bamboos thriving everywhere, but none of them are fed to the pandas. The panda’s bamboo all comes from the mountains and special misting sheds built all around the grounds to keep bamboo fresh. It is really an excellent recreational area and highlight for tourists.

The difference in Chengdu research base of giant panda breeding from Wolong nature reserve is panda. Of course both of them are nonprofit institution. However, there is no wild panda except 6 pandas that was rescued from outdoor in the early of found. And base’s original intention is helping these injured pandas. To the end of last year there successfully propagate 120 from 82 embryos in artificial way. And now 67 giant pandas are living in there. Actually there is a section call the panda kindergarten. All the cubs are kept in there with being separated from the adult pandas so that they can be reared by the keepers. In the meaning time, the base invites the researchers and scientists from other nations to exchange technique annually. Panda is not only the treasure of China but also of the whole world.

Achievement of the base is remarkable. Due to the manual raising the panda’s life has been extended to 20 years or longer. They are usually at 4 or 5 years old. And the reproduction period is more than 10 years. The rate of fertilization, pregnancy, birth and survival have got a sharply result in increasing. With a high top-notch, Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda is very successful at producing cubs. For example, Meimei, a panda known as “Herione Mother”, has given birth to 10 cubs in 9 pregnancies. Seven of them were survived. It as well as makes many first-time experiences, such as firstly bred the giant panda with freeze semen in success, firstly got the twins panda cubs survived, and firstly run the parentage appraisal for panda. All of these indicated that the giant panda, if given an appropriate environment, can also show great potential of population growth.

        the Charm Theatre of Giant Panda
           In order to cooperate with the activities of "Chengdunese Touring Chengdu", the Charm Theatre of Giant Panda has been
         formally opened since 1st June. There is a projection room in which pictures of giant pandas filled the four walls. Films about
         the living and growing-up of giant pandas are shown on the projection screen continuously.
         In the Charm Theatre of Giant Panda, there are over 200 videos for the visitors to choose and watch without paying. All the
         videos show visitors the whole course of the living of giant panda including estrus, artificial insemination, pregnancy, birth and
         growing-up.

Chengdu Giant Panda Museum

Giant Panda Museum was opened in 1993 to further scientific education and to improve public awareness of the protection of both wild creatures and their environment. This is the world's only thematic museum for rare and endangered animal species. In addition to the Giant Panda Hall, the Butterfly Hall and the Vertebrate Hall have also been opened. The three separated halls work collectively to educate visitor. The exhibits include all kinds of precious pictures, more than 800 materials and show more than 2140 different samples gathered in Sichuan. These include examples of animals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and insects as well as fossils and models. The resources held in store at the museum include up to ten thousand samples as well as a library of thousands of books and documents. This excellent and comprehensive museum provides a wonderful venue for all who are interested in seeing something of the propagation and protection of the region's natural bio-diversity.

The Giant Panda Hall systematically and completely shows panda’s evolution history, ancient and nowadays distribution, general situation, condition and human’s research through practical specimens and fossils, even many large zoology scope-box. Then people can have a deep understand from these learning areas.

Giant Panda Hall: is the first museum established for the precious giant pandas. It presents a collection of the knowledge, survey and research of giant pandas up to now. There are about 300 pieces of pictures about giant pandas and scientific accurate diagrams. The works on giant pandas are also displayed in this museum from ancient time up to now. The fossils and dissection of each part of giant panda, the excrement and urine and the edible bamboos are exhibited here. There are also miniature ecological environment for giant pandas in ancient times, the endangered surviving environment of giant pandas and some models of the natural ecological environments such as Qin Ling, Liangshan Mountain, Xiang Ling, Min Shan and Qiulai Mountain. All these boxes of models of ecological environments cover a area of 300 m2 . The models are vivid description of the living conditions of giant pandas and their habits. The whole exhibit hall presents a systematical introduction to the evolution history of giant pandas, the distribution both in ancient times and at present, the knowledge and research of the giant pandas from ancient times up to now, the ecological habits of giant pandas, the characteristics of the biological dissection, conservation of the ex-situ population and the results of in-situ bred giant pandas as well as the touching stories of people all around the world who contributed a great deal to the course of conserving giant pandas. The aim is set to let people get a full picture of the giant pandas and the efforts of Chinese Government has spent on preserving and rescuing giant pandas. Therefore, people will take the responsibilities of adoring and conserving giant pandas and will try best to love and protect nature.

Vertebrae Animals Hall: There are more than 800 kinds of specimens (more than 1000 pieces) including fish, amphibious animals, reptile animals, birds and mammals. Besides, there are also 350 pictures illustrating the variety of animal ecological behaviors with the diagram of evolution progress and brief written introduction. The specimens of the precious species such as Chinese sturgeon, white sturgeon, vicious white shark, peculiar frogs, huge green turtles, hawksbill turtles, the dinosaurs fossils, crocodiles from America, huge lizards from Southeast Asia, emperor penguins from South Pole, delicate sun birds, green phoenix from Xishuang Banna, mighty tigers and leopards and lovely giant pandas can be seen here. The displayed specimens are exquisitely produced and give a vivid description of the living animals. They are exhibited either in the cupboards or in the ecological boxes that imitate the actual living conditions of these animals. Sometimes some specimens are also exhibited within the reach of people. Walking in the exhibition hall, people can get a detailed impression of the wild lives, their behaviors and habits. You will be amazed at the variety of the animal species that Nature possesses. "Human, Animal and Nature"-the everlasting theme will be fully understood in this exhibit.

Butterfly Exhibition Hall: Butterflies have always been favored by human beings since ancient times because of their splendid colors and graceful appearance. There are 16900 kinds of butterflies in the world that have been identified. Along with the development of economy, people begin to realize that butterflies have a great value in research resources. They have significance not only in the scientific research in the fields of entomology, ecology and environmental sciences, but also in collection of natural specimens and artistic store, handicraft and hand-made articles. Butterflies possess high economic and artistic value.

Chengdu Zoo

A fairly standard Chinese provincial zoo. A large well laid out park with lots of amusements for the throngs of people. The animals are housed in small featureless concrete and iron blocks and are subjected to constant harassment by the public; shouting, spitting, throwing food and all sorts of unsuitable objects. There is no attempt at providing privacy or environmental enrichment.
This zoo has over 10 giant pandas, the largest number of this endangered species in city zoo in captivity in the world, also rare golden-hair monkeys, and other 200 varieties.

Relative Itineraries
Half Day tour for China Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding New
1 Day tour for Sanxingdui Museum and China Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding
3 Days Giant Panda Tour in Wolong Reserve

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