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The China Panda Garden at Shunan Bamboo Sea is a newly built panda venue inside the Shunan Bamboo Sea scenic area in Yibin, Sichuan. Ping Ping (平平, studbook 704) moved here on September 29, 2025.
China Panda Garden at Shunan Bamboo Sea houses giant pandas under international loan agreement with the China Conservation and Research Center, as part of the cooperative panda diplomacy and ex-situ conservation network.
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Resident archive
1 panda recorded
The pandas currently recorded at this institution.
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Ping Ping (平平), studbook #704, is a female giant panda born on July 6, 2008 at the Ya'an Bifengxia Base. She and her twi...
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Recorded moments
Ping Ping (#704) moved into the newly built China Panda Garden at Shunan Bamboo Sea, where she lives today.
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Every captive giant panda on Earth is recorded in a single global database — the International Studbook — which tracks lineage, calculates genetic relatedness, and determines each year's breeding recommendations. This article explains how studbook managers use population genetics software to maintain 90% genetic diversity across 700 captive pandas, making the panda breeding program one of the most mathematically sophisticated conservation efforts in history.
In 2009, an international team led by BGI-Shenzhen published the first complete giant panda genome — a 2.4 billion base-pair blueprint that revealed why pandas lost the taste for meat, how they digest bamboo with bacterial help, and why their genetic diversity offers hope for survival. This article follows the science from Jing Jing's blood sample to today's conservation genomics, covering TAS1R1 umami pseudogenization, the Illumina sequencing revolution, and what the genome means for the species' future.
The bamboo forests protected for pandas store an estimated 2-3 billion tons of carbon across the Giant Panda National Park's 27,000 square kilometers — an ecosystem service worth $200-750 million annually in carbon sequestration alone. This article examines how panda conservation doubles as climate action, why bamboo forests rival tropical rainforests in per-hectare carbon storage, and how China's carbon market is creating new economic incentives for habitat protection.
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Coordinates: 28.4700 N, 104.9500 E
No independent official website located for this panda exhibit within Shunan Bamboo Sea; verified via regional panda-authority context, 2026-10-19.
Archive notes
The China Panda Garden at Shunan Bamboo Sea (蜀南竹海中华大熊猫苑) is a newly built giant panda venue located in the Shunan Bamboo Sea scenic area, Yibin, Sichuan Province. The garden receives giant pandas from the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. Female panda Ping Ping (平平, studbook 704) moved in on September 29, 2025, making her one of its first residents.