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Qing Qing

庆庆

Qing Qing is a female giant panda born on 1984-09-09 at Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. She is registered as studbook number 280 in the global giant panda breeding registry, one of the earliest captive-bred giant pandas born at Chengdu Base. She is the offspring of Tang Tang and Ying Ying, both wild-born giant pandas rescued from the Qinling Mountains in the 1970s. Currently living at Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, she participates in the base’s long-term captive giant panda breeding and behavioral research programs. The base is a leading Chinese institution focused on giant panda conservation and ex-situ breeding. As one of the first successfully captive-bred giant pandas at Chengdu Base, Qing Qing demonstrated that wild-caught giant pandas could reproduce reliably in human care. She has produced multiple surviving offspring that have contributed to the expanding captive giant panda gene pool, providing valuable data for ongoing conservation efforts to protect the species endemic to China’s Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.