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The Wolong Hetaoping Wild Training Base, located within Wolong National Nature Reserve in Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province, sits at the eastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at the core of the Qionglai Mountains, a global biodiversity hotspot designated by Conservation International. Specializing in the wild reintroduction of Ailuropoda melanoleuca (giant panda), the base operates under the supervision of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda (CCRCGP), collaborating with the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences to optimize training protocols for captive-bred pandas to adapt to native habitats dominated by Bashania faberi (Fargesia bamboo) and Abies fabri (Faber's fir). It also conducts cross-species conservation research on sympatric endemic species including *Takin* (Budorcas taxicolor tibetana), *Red Panda* (Ailurus fulgens), and *Snow Leopard* (Panthera uncia), all listed in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and protected under Appendix I of CITES. As the first dedicated giant panda wild training site in China, Hetaoping launched the national Giant Panda Wild Training and Reintroduction Program in 2009, with its first released individual, panda Tao Tao, successfully integrating into the wild population
Wolong Hetaoping Wild Training Base is a CCRCGP-affiliated ex-situ conservation facility contributing to the coordinated captive breeding program that maintains genetic diversity across the global giant panda population.
Pandas here, not open to the public
A working wild-training base that holds pandas but admits no public visitors.
Checked 28 October 2026· Source
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Wu Jie (later known as Kai Kai in Singapore) born at Wolong Breeding Center.
Read updateShi Shi was rescued from the wild in Baoxing County, Sichuan, bearing multiple injuries from intraspecies fighting. He underwent three surgeries at the Wolong center.
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Giant pandas do not hunt people, but they are bears with a lion-range bite and sharp claws. Every documented attack has been defensive, triggered by a person crossing a barrier, cornering the animal, or approaching a cub. The risk is low probability and high consequence — and almost entirely avoidable.
A planning guide to seeing giant pandas in China, centred on Chengdu. Compare the main panda bases — Chengdu, Dujiangyan Panda Valley, Wolong Shenshuping, Ya'an Bifengxia, Qinling and Beijing Zoo — with ticket types, booking windows and travel times, then plan around the animals' own schedule: when to go, how to book with a passport, realistic itineraries, and what responsible panda tourism actually looks like.
In October 2026, nine-year-old Ran Ran was named to travel to Pairi Daiza in Belgium — stepping in for Hao Hao, who returned to China for medical care, and keeping alive a China–Belgium panda partnership that began in 2014. Hers is a story of wild training, wild-born twins, and a family tree that reaches from Sichuan to Seoul, Taipei and Brussels.
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Coordinates: 30.9167 N, 103.1500 E
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The Wolong Hetaoping Wild Training Base, located within Wolong National Nature Reserve in Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province, sits at the eastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at the core of the Qionglai Mountains, a global biodiversity hotspot designated by Conservation International. Specializing in the wild reintroduction of Ailuropoda melanoleuca (giant panda), the base operates under the supervision of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda (CCRCGP), collaborating with the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences to optimize training protocols for captive-bred pandas to adapt to native habitats dominated by Bashania faberi (Fargesia bamboo) and Abies fabri (Faber's fir). It also conducts cross-species conservation research on sympatric endemic species including Takin (Budorcas taxicolor tibetana), Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens), and Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia), all listed in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and protected under Appendix I of CITES.
As the first dedicated giant panda wild training site in China, Hetaoping launched the national Giant Panda Wild Training and Reintroduction Program in 2009, with its first released individual, panda Tao Tao, successfully integrating into the wild population