Panda breeding base
1 min readAs a genuine“homeland of giant pandas”，Chengdu has panda distribution in Qionglai，Dali，Congzhou and Dujiangyan.In 1987，the Panda Breeding Base（thereafter refer to as the“base”in brief）.
Combining the geographical advantage and technological and personnel advantages in rescuing，artificial rearing and panda research of Chengdu Zoo，the base strengthened its effort in protecting the land for panda immigration，improving panda research and breeding，increasing the number of pandas and，beginning the training to return the pandas into the wild after the total number have increased to a certain degree to supplement and revitalize the panda species.Through transforming the crucial results of researches about“panda twins nursing”，“panda artificial insemination”and“panda DNA finger probe and extraction of DNA”，the base has successfully bred 48 pandas since its establishment.It covers an area of 600 mu，among which 24383 m2 in construction area，16883 m2 in floorage，18000 m2 in water area and 305686 m2 green area，with a coverage rate of 93.77%and greenbelt rate of 80.63%.And three museums are already built there，namely the panda museum，the butterfly museum and vertebrate museum，among which the panda museum is the earliest one of its kind in the world.
