Panda Archive

Qing Qing

庆庆

Qing Qing is a female giant panda born on 1984-01-01 in the wild of Sichuan Province, China. She was captured as a wild juvenile and transferred to the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, where her studbook entry number 282 was recorded in the international giant panda studbook. She is the offspring of unidentified wild giant panda parents. Wild-born giant pandas captured for conservation supplementation in the 1980s, like Qing Qing, contributed genetic diversity to the emerging captive breeding population in China. Currently living at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan, she participated in the base’s early captive breeding and conservation research programs for giant pandas before her death. Her time in captivity supported research into giant panda dietary and reproductive biology that informed later conservation work. As a wild-born giant panda integrated into early captive conservation efforts, Qing Qing was docile in human-managed care and adapted well to captive feeding regimes. She helped establish the Chengdu Research Base’s foundational captive population, drawing public interest to giant panda conservation and supporting ongoing research that has improved the species’ protected status.