Hai Xing

Hai Xing, a male giant panda with the official studbook number 1368, was born on September 15, 2021 at the Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden in southern China. His identity is formally registered in the China National Panda Conservation and Management System, the national database that tracks individual giant pandas across all captive care facilities in the country. His lineage traces to two adult giant pandas, Lu Lu and Yuan Yuan, who were transferred to the Hainan facility as part of a regional conservation display program overseen by the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. Both parents are part of the coordinated national captive breeding population, which is managed to maintain genetic diversity and support the long-term survival of the vulnerable species.

Since birth, Hai Xing has remained in residence at the Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden, where his care is regularly coordinated with national giant panda conservation authorities to ensure full compliance with standardized species protection guidelines. As a young captive-bred individual, he exhibits typical giant panda behavioral patterns, including dedicating the majority of his daily activity to resting and foraging for bamboo. He resides at the facility alongside two other captive giant pandas, and is integrated into the park’s public programming alongside his conspecifics.

Hai Xing is a prominent draw for domestic tourists visiting Hainan, and serves as a key ambassador for the park’s conservation education initiatives. His public presence supports targeted outreach efforts to raise public awareness of giant panda habitat loss, breeding challenges, and the broader conservation work being carried out across China to protect the species. As part of the managed captive panda population, he also contributes to long-term research efforts focused on giant panda development, behavior, and adaptive care in subtropical captive environments, a relatively understudied area for the species that historically evolved in cooler temperate mountain habitats.