Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base Opens, Implementing ‘One Person, One Certificate, One Ticket’ System
Xinhua News Agency, Chengdu, March 25th (Yue Yitong, Anyuan) Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base officially opened after two months of closed-garden operation on March 25th. Visitors can purchase tickets by online booking, scanning codes on site, and purchasing physical tickets, and the park implements a 'one person, one certificate, one ticket' system, limiting the number of visitors entering the park daily.
Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base's giant pandas. Photo provided by Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base.
On the same day, the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base held an opening ceremony and other activities while ensuring safety. After a 2-minute flash performance, 5 lucky visitors interacted with the pandas through live screens and the year's first pair of captive giant panda twins via video connection.
The reporter learned that on the first day of opening, visitors consciously maintained a distance, and the entire scene was orderly.
New giant panda cubs born on March 21st. Photo provided by Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base.
To ensure safety after opening, the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base's opening hours are daily from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, and ticket check and ticketing will stop at 4:00 pm. The Giant Panda Magic Theater continues to remain closed. In addition, disinfection is carried out in the base every day, and the animal keepers closely observe and record the animal's individual behavior, feeding, drinking, excrement, and status and state.
It is reported that during the closed-garden period, the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base developed comprehensive protective measures to ensure the safety of the park, ensure the normal feeding and management of all animals, and the conduct of research work. The base first stored a large amount of bamboo, and experts formulated an emergency bamboo feeding plan for giant pandas. To prevent human-animal cross-infection, keepers adopted a no-holiday, no-shift work system to ensure the health of animals and personnel, enabling normal operation of daily work such as feeding, raising cubs, environmental enrichment, behavior training, disease control and treatment.
It is reported that on March 17th, giant panda 'Fuwa' gave birth to the year's first pair of male giant panda cubs; on March 21st, giant panda 'Zizi' gave birth to a male giant panda cub. Currently, the three newborn cubs' physiological indicators are good. (Completed)
