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The CCRCGP Dujiangyan Base, also known as the Dujiangyan Panda Park (熊猫乐园) or Dujiangyan Zhonghua Giant Panda Garden (都江堰中华大熊猫苑), is located in Qingchengshan Town, Dujiangyan City, Sichuan Province. Built with funding from the Hong Kong SAR government following the devastating 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, the base was completed in 2013 and spans 760 mu (approximately 50.7 hectares). It was the first facility in China designed specifically for giant panda rescue, disease prevention, and quarantine purposes. The base is divided into seven functional zones including disease control research, quarantine isolation, rehabilitation training, public education, and natural landscape areas. It serves as a retirement home for elderly pandas—including the legendary Pan Pan (the world's most prolific breeding male)—and as the primary quarantine station for pandas returning from overseas conservation programs.
China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda Dujiangyan Base is a CCRCGP-affiliated ex-situ conservation facility contributing to the coordinated captive breeding program that maintains genetic diversity across the global giant panda population.
How this page is organized
This page gathers the residents linked to China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda Dujiangyan Base, the key moments recorded here, nearby institutions, and the articles that add context.
Resident archive
12 pandas recorded
The pandas currently recorded at this institution.
艾米
Ai Mi (艾米, studbook #1126) is a male giant panda born June 15, 2018 at Chengdu Base — the elder twin of Ai Lun (艾伦). Son...
白云
Bai Yun (白云, "White Cloud"), studbook #371, is a female giant panda born September 7, 1991 at Wolong Hetaoping Base. She...
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Cheng Feng (成风), studbook #1172, is a female giant panda born on June 11, 2019, at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Pa...
和雨
He Yu (和雨, studbook #1029) is a female giant panda born August 9, 2016 at the Chengdu Research Base. Twin sister of He F...
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Ji Xiao is a female giant panda born on June 5, 2019 at Chengdu Base. She was the first captive-born cub of 2019 globall...
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Le Le (叻叻), studbook #1074, is the first giant panda ever born in Singapore. Born August 14, 2021 at River Wonders to Ka...
Recorded moments
Le Le departed Singapore aboard a Singapore Airlines cargo flight at 7:15 PM, arriving in Chengdu that same evening. After quarantine at Huaying Mountain, he moved to the Dujiangyan Base in February 2024.
Read updateCheng Feng moved to Dujiangyan Panda Valley.
Read updateJi Xiao moved to Dujiangyan Panda Valley to continue her life there.
Read updateHe Yu and Xing Chen were officially transferred to the Daxiangling Wild Release Research Base for advanced wild adaptation training, achieving full natural food conversion.
Read updateGao Gao returned to Sichuan after 15 years at San Diego Zoo, beginning a month-long quarantine at Dujiangyan Base. He made his first public appearance on December 3.
Read updateHe Yu moved to Dujiangyan Panda Valley for semi-wild training, beginning her preparation for potential wild release under the human-assisted soft release method.
Read updateYuan Run was transferred to the Dujiangyan Breeding and Wild Research Center, where she lived with siblings Ao Li Ao and Miao Miao, often playing in mud.
Read updateYa Xing was transferred to Dujiangyan Panda Valley along with her twins Xing Yu and Xing Yuan for wild training, spending two years learning survival skills before returning to Chengdu Base in 2017.
Read updateIn the library
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.
Some of the most consequential pandas in conservation history were not born in captivity — they were found dying in the wild. Basi, pulled from an icy river in 1984, lived to age 37 and became the model for the 1990 Asian Games mascot. Qi Zai, discovered as an abandoned brown cub in 2009, became the world's only captive brown panda. This article tells the stories of wild pandas saved by human intervention — and the rescue infrastructure that makes their survival possible.
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.
World map
Coordinates: 30.9200 N, 103.5700 E
Archive notes
The CCRCGP Dujiangyan Base, also known as the Dujiangyan Panda Park (熊猫乐园) or Dujiangyan Zhonghua Giant Panda Garden (都江堰中华大熊猫苑), is located in Qingchengshan Town, Dujiangyan City, Sichuan Province. Built with funding from the Hong Kong SAR government following the devastating 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, the base was completed in 2013 and spans 760 mu (approximately 50.7 hectares). It was the first facility in China designed specifically for giant panda rescue, disease prevention, and quarantine purposes. The base is divided into seven functional zones including disease control research, quarantine isolation, rehabilitation training, public education, and natural landscape areas. It serves as a retirement home for elderly pandas—including the legendary Pan Pan (the world's most prolific breeding male)—and as the primary quarantine station for pandas returning from overseas conservation programs.