Panda Archive

Rong Rong

蓉蓉

Rong Rong is a female giant panda born on 1996-07-22 at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. She is registered as individual 400 in the international giant panda studbook, and is a healthy, alive adult female native to Sichuan Province, China. She is the offspring of Ba Shi (studbook number 334) and Ya Ya (studbook number 358), both adult giant pandas housed at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding during her conception and birth. Currently living at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, she participates in the base’s long-term captive breeding program for giant pandas, which supports the genetic diversity of the global captive giant panda population. She contributes to the base’s public education and research initiatives focused on giant panda ecology and biology. As one of the longer-term resident giant pandas at the Chengdu Research Base, Rong Rong demonstrates typical captive giant panda foraging and resting behaviors observed by researchers and millions of annual visitors. Her genetic line has contributed to multiple successful captive birth events, supporting conservation efforts that have led giant pandas to be reclassified from Endangered to Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, and she serves as a recognizable cultural symbol of Chinese wildlife conservation globally.