Xing Rong

Xing Rong is a female giant panda born on 2023-07-07 at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. She is registered under studbook number 1304 in the global giant panda population management system, and she remains alive as of 2024. She is the offspring of Xiao Qiao and Cheng Cheng, both captive-bred giant pandas held at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. Her lineage is part of the center’s planned breeding program designed to maintain genetic diversity in the captive giant panda population. Currently living at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong, Sichuan, she participates in the center’s captive breeding and juvenile rearing program. The program focuses on monitoring giant panda cub development, studying early social behavior, and maintaining a sustainable, genetically healthy ex situ population. As a young giant panda, Xing Rong shows typical foraging and climbing behaviors common to the species. She is featured in educational outreach materials from the China Conservation and Research Center, helping raise global public awareness of giant panda conservation. Her birth contributes to the long-term conservation goal of securing viable wild and captive populations of this vulnerable species.