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Qin Xing

秦星

Qin Xing is a male giant panda born on 2023-09-30 at Qinling Wildlife Park. His studbook registration number is 1374, and he is recorded as alive in global giant panda studbook data maintained by the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. He is the offspring of Qin Qin and Xing Xing, both adult giant pandas resident in the Qinling Wildlife Park population. His lineage belongs to the Qinling subspecies of giant panda, a genetically distinct regional population separated from the Sichuan giant panda population hundreds of thousands of years ago. Currently living at Qinling Wildlife Park in Shaanxi Province, China, he participates in the park’s managed breeding program for the Qinling giant panda subspecies. The program is part of national conservation efforts to protect genetically distinct wild and captive giant panda populations. As a young Qinling subspecies giant panda, Qin Xing displays the distinct lighter fur tone characteristic of his subspecies. He draws regular public attention to giant panda conservation at Qinling Wildlife Park, a key facility for regional conservation education and captive breeding. His birth contributes to the genetic diversity of the captive Qinling giant panda population, supporting long-term conservation resilience for the species.