Xing Xing

Xing Xing is a male giant panda born on 2014-09-15 at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. He is registered in the international giant panda studbook under number 1114, and is one of more than 2,000 living giant pandas globally recognized by conservation groups. He is the offspring of Xi Bang (studbook 649) and Ye Ye (studbook 634), both giant pandas housed at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding at the time of his birth. His lineage traces to wild giant panda populations native to the Min Mountains of Sichuan Province, China. Currently living at Malaysia Zoo, he participates in a joint giant panda conservation research program between the China Wildlife Conservation Association and Malaysia’s Department of Wildlife and National Parks Peninsular Malaysia. The program focuses on public education about giant panda ecology and cross-border collaborative species protection. As a docile, bamboo-eating giant panda, Xing Xing draws hundreds of thousands of visitors to Malaysia Zoo annually, raising public awareness of threatened mountain forest ecosystems in southwestern China. He supports global ex-situ conservation efforts for the species, which was downgraded from Endangered to Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List due to decades of coordinated habitat protection and breeding work.