Mao Mao

Basic Profile

Mao Mao (毛毛), officially named Fu Wa (福娃), studbook number 570, is a female giant panda born on September 6, 2003 at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. She has spent her entire life at the base, now living in the Jiang Yue House (江月馆), and is honored as one of its veteran breeding dams (功勋母兽).

Family

Relation	Name	Studbook
Mother	Ya Ya (娅娅, “Asian Games Princess”)	—
Father	Ha Lan (哈兰)	—

Her mother Ya Ya was born on the opening day of the 1990 Beijing Asian Games and was one of the world’s first artificially-reared giant panda twins to survive. Through this maternal line, Mao Mao belongs to the famous “Pan Pan” sports-family lineage behind Asian Games and Olympic mascot pandas.

Offspring

Mao Mao has raised eight cubs in five litters — her fifth delivery, the 2020 twins, was the base’s first captive-born twin pair of that year:

Name	Studbook	Birth	Note
Da Mao (大毛)	732	2008-09-01	Once resident in Canada, now at Chengdu Base
Mao Zhu (毛竹)	921	2014-07-26	Male, on loan to Yunnan Wild Animal Park
Mao Sun (毛笋)	919	2014-07-26	Female, at Copenhagen Zoo, Denmark
Mao Dou (毛豆)	—	2016-07-26	Male, at Anji Bamboo博园, Huzhou
Mao Tao (毛桃)	1017	2016-07-26	Male
Ping Ping (热干面)	1230	2020-03-17	Selected for Zoo Atlanta in 2026
Dan Hong Gao (蛋烘糕)	—	2020-03-17	Twin brother of Ping Ping

Life Journey

• 2003-09-06: Born at the Chengdu Research Base; milk name Mao Mao (毛毛).
• 2005-11-19: Officially named Fu Wa (福娃) by the base — she is the creative prototype behind the Beijing 2008 Olympic mascot Jing Jing (晶晶), and is Jing Jing’s elder sister.
• 2008-09-01: Gave birth to her first cub, Da Mao, beginning a breeding career that would span five litters.
• 2014 & 2016: Produced two sets of twins (Mao Zhu/Mao Sun, Mao Dou/Mao Tao).
• 2020-03-17: Delivered twins Ping Ping and Dan Hong Gao at the Sunlight Nursery — the earliest birth time in the base’s records and the first captive-born twin pair of 2020 worldwide (12:57, 159.8 g; 15:10, 119.5 g).
• Ongoing: Honored as a veteran breeding dam; also served as foster mother to cubs at the base, including Xun Xun (勋勋).

She was also the first giant panda to provide sequencing DNA for the first giant panda genome sequence map, and remains a living symbol of the base’s “sports family” line.

Her son Ping Ping (平平, studbook 1230), nicknamed Re Gan Mian, was selected together with Fu Shuang (福双) for Zoo Atlanta in 2026.