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Mei Xi
美茜
alive female
Born July 15, 2013
Mei Xi (美茜, studbook #856) is a female giant panda born July 15, 2013 at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda (CCRCGP) in Wolong, Sichuan. She resides at CCRCGP as part of the captive breeding program. Her parentage is not documented in publicly available studbook records.
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Birth date
July 15, 2013
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China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda
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China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda
Status
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Mei Xi (美茜, studbook #856) is a female giant panda born July 15, 2013 at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda (CCRCGP) in Wolong, Sichuan. She resides at CCRCGP as part of the captive breeding program. Her parentage is not documented in publicly available studbook records.
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Mei Xi (美茜, studbook #856) is a female giant panda born on July 15, 2013 at CCRCGP in Wolong, Sichuan. Her name means “Beautiful Sedge” in Chinese.
Life at CCRCGP
Mei Xi has spent her entire life within the CCRCGP facility network. She maintains a standard diet of fresh bamboo supplemented with steamed cornbread, apples, and carrots. She participates in the center’s routine health monitoring program.
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China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda
Dujiangyan, China
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Bifengxia Base: The First Stop for Every Returning Overseas Panda
Nestled in the misty mountains above Ya'an, Sichuan, the Bifengxia Panda Base is the quiet epicenter of the global panda diaspora — the place every overseas-born panda first encounters when it returns to China. With its cool climate, abundant bamboo, and specialized quarantine facilities, Bifengxia has processed every major panda homecoming of the modern era, from Tai Shan in 2010 to Fu Bao in 2024.
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Dujiangyan: The World's Only Panda Nursing Home
Tucked into the forested foothills outside Chengdu, the Dujiangyan Giant Panda Rescue and Disease Control Center is unlike any other panda facility in the world. It is not a breeding center. It is not a tourist attraction. It is a hospital and a retirement home — the place where aging pandas, retired breeders, and returning overseas celebrities spend their final years in quiet, forested enclosures with specialized geriatric care. Mei Xiang, Tian Tian, Bai Yun, and Pan Pan all ended their journeys here. This is the story of the world's only panda nursing home.
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Where Pandas Live: The Complete Global Distribution Guide
The giant panda diaspora spans 58 locations across continents — from the misty bamboo forests of Sichuan to climate-controlled enclosures in Singapore, from mountain reserves that shelter free-ranging pandas to urban zoos that host celebrities. This article provides the definitive guide to panda geography: where they live, why they're there, what the distribution reveals about conservation history, and how the map has changed from 1869 to today.
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The Great Return: Why Overseas-Born Pandas Must Come Home
Every panda born outside China must return by age four — a clause that shapes the emotional landscape of international panda cooperation. From Tai Shan (2005) to Fu Bao (2024), this article traces the biological, legal, and emotional dimensions of the panda homecoming, examining what happens when an overseas-born panda lands in Chengdu and must learn to be a Chinese panda.
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