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Mei Xing

美星

Mei Xing is a female giant panda born on 2020-08-12 at Shanghai Zoo. She holds studbook number 1343 in the global giant panda breeding registry, and she remains alive as of 2024. Her birth was part of a coordinated captive breeding program managed by Chinese wildlife conservation authorities. She is the offspring of Gu Guo and Hua Er, both adult captive giant pandas housed at Shanghai Zoo. Both parents have contributed multiple cubs to the regional captive breeding population for the species. Currently living at Shanghai Zoo, she participates in the zoo’s public education programming for giant panda conservation. She also contributes to scientific research on captive giant panda behavior, with data from her daily activities shared with the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. Mei Xing displays typical giant panda traits, including spending most of her daytime hours feeding on bamboo and resting. She is a popular attraction for domestic and international visitors to Shanghai Zoo, helping raise public awareness of giant panda conservation needs. As a healthy captive-bred individual, she supports the long-term genetic diversity of the global captive giant panda population.