Hai Ning

Hai Ning is a male giant panda born on 2020-08-30 at Hainan Zoo. He holds studbook number 1350 for the global captive giant panda breeding registry, and remains in good health as of 2024. He is the offspring of Gong Gong and Yuan Yuan, both captive-bred giant pandas housed at Hainan Zoo. His birth was a planned outcome of the China Giant Panda Conservation and Research Center’s coordinated captive breeding program. Currently living at Hainan Zoo, he participates in public education programming for tropical biodiversity conservation and regular health monitoring as part of national captive giant panda population management. As a captive-born giant panda, Hai Ning displays species-typical foraging behaviors, consuming an average of 15 to 20 kilograms of bamboo daily. He is a popular cultural attraction for domestic and international visitors to Hainan, and contributes to research on giant panda adaptation to warm, humid southern Chinese climates, supporting long-term species conservation efforts.