Sichuan Panda Corps ＂earns foreign exchange＂ overseas with an annual salary of one million US dollars (Figure)

The number of overseas giant panda corps in our province (Sichuan) has nearly doubled in four years, and the giant pandas living abroad have returned home with honors one after another.

　　Mei Mei, the world’s first captive giant panda, who set many world records such as estrus in autumn and giving birth in winter, died in Japan on the 16th, which can’t help but make us feel a little worried about those giant pandas who still live overseas. As the "parents" of overseas giant pandas, what do experts from China Conservation Giant Panda Research Center and chengdu research base of giant panda think of these national treasures living abroad? Yesterday (19th), the reporter interviewed experts from these two units on the overseas life of giant pandas.

　　status

　　There are 26 overseas corps.

　　"Mei Mei’s sudden departure makes us feel very sad!" Lan Jingchao, director of Chengdu Panda Base Veterinary Hospital, introduced that Mei Mei, a giant panda in Chengdu, and Yongming, her husband, are the first pair of giant pandas to go abroad in our province. So far, there are 13 giant pandas living abroad in Chengdu. In addition, there are 13 giant pandas living abroad in the China Research Center for the Protection of Giant Pandas, so that the number of overseas giant pandas in our province has reached 26, nearly double the number of 14 in 2004.

　　Overseas giant pandas mainly live in the United States, Japan, Austria, Spain, Thailand and other countries. They not only transmit friendly messages overseas, but also shoulder the heavy responsibility of "carrying on the family line". Among them, Mei Mei, a giant panda who just died of illness, is the heroic mother of overseas corps. From 1994 to Japan up to now, under the Communist Party of Mei Mei, there were 6 births and 11 pandas, and 9 pandas survived, making the giant panda population in Japan the largest outside China. In 1996, the giant pandas "Baiyun" and "Shishi" from Wolong China Conservation Giant Panda Research Center came to the San Diego Zoo in the United States to become the first pair of giant pandas in the Western Hemisphere, and their baby "Huamei" became the first giant panda born in the United States.

　　honour

　　Complete the mission and return home one after another.

　　Experts from the China Research Center for the Protection of Giant Pandas said that the overseas life of these giant pandas is quite comfortable, and they have to get a "salary" when they live and have children. According to the giant panda cooperation agreement signed between China and the other country, the giant pandas loaned by China and their offspring bred abroad belong to China and must return to China at a certain age.

　　According to the resource management bureau of Wolong Nature Reserve, according to the economic situation of countries where giant pandas study abroad, their salaries are also different. In the United States, Japan and Austria, each pair of giant pandas can earn 1 million dollars a year, but in Thailand, the giant pandas Chuangchuang and Linghui are much poorer, and their annual salary is only 270,000 dollars. In addition, there are "red envelopes" for pandas. For example, Mei Mei and Yongming, Chengdu pandas living in Japan, gave birth in 2000 and 2001 respectively, and the Japanese government specially rewarded them with a sum of money. After the arrival of "Huamei" on August 21st, 1999, the United States also paid a cooperation incentive fee to China. It is understood that the salary of giant pandas is all earmarked, mainly used for the protection and construction of giant panda habitats, as well as field research, publicity and education. "In recent years, overseas giant pandas have returned to China one after another and have been loved by their hometown people!" Experts say that the giant pandas who have returned to China have started their breeding programs, especially Huamei in Wolong, who gave birth to three pairs of twins four years after returning to China, and can be described as young heroic mothers.

　　life

　　Living abroad is comfortable and comfortable.

　　In September 2007, chengdu research base of giant panda’s male panda Bing Xing and female panda Hua Zui went to Madrid Zoo. According to experts from the base, the two giant pandas are kept separately in Madrid Zoo. The zoo has prepared bedrooms and activity areas for them, each bedroom is equipped with air conditioners and humidifiers, and 11 monitors are installed in the two bedrooms. Next to the panda bedroom is the room of the breeder who specializes in raising them. Through closed-circuit television, the two pandas are monitored 24 hours a day.

　　Zhang Zhihe, director of the base, said that the "Ice Star" is in good health and growth, and is now sexually mature and can participate in reproduction. "Flower mouth" has also appeared estrus behavior, and everyone is very much looking forward to their beautiful baby being born. Can China Giant Panda Adapt to Foreign Diet? Experts say there is no need to worry, because fresh and delicious bamboo grows abroad.

　　It is understood that our province’s giant panda overseas corps is located in Japan’s Wakayama Baibang Wildlife Park, Atlanta Zoo in the United States, San Diego Zoo in the United States, Washington Zoo in the United States, Nashville Zoo in the United States, Sch? nbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria, Madrid Zoo in Spain and Chiang Mai Zoo in Thailand.

　　□ Have to say

　　Went abroad more than 10 years ago.

　　In 1994, Mei Mei and Yongming, a couple of giant pandas from Chengdu Panda Base, went abroad and lived in Japanese Baibangshan Wildlife Park. In addition to being viewed by people, they will also be studied by experts from both countries on their behavior and reproduction, and the Japanese government will pay the China government $1 million a year for this.

　　In 1996, the couple "Baiyun" and "Shishi" pandas from Wolong China Conservation Giant Panda Research Center came to the San Diego Zoo in the United States, becoming the first pair of giant pandas in the Western Hemisphere. At that time, two giant pandas earned $1 million for China.

　　In recent years, "returnees" giant pandas

　　In January 2003, Shi Shi, a giant panda who has lived in the United States for six years, returned to Wolong for the elderly. Shi Shi and Bai Yun once gave birth to Huamei in the United States.

　　In 2004, Huamei, a four-and-a-half-year-old American panda, returned to Wolong. Now, after returning to China for four years, "Huamei" has given birth to three pairs of twins.

　　In June 2004, Xiongbang, the world’s first giant panda born in winter under artificial breeding conditions, returned to Chengdu from Japan and was 7 years old this year.

　　In October 2007, Meisheng, the first giant panda born in the United States through natural mating, returned to Wolong. She was just five and a half years old this year, just at the age of "talking about marriage".

　　In October, 2007, Chengdu giant panda twins "Longbang" and "Qiubang" returned to Chengdu. They are the first pair of twin pandas who have returned to China for more than 10 years since China launched the "Long-term International Breeding Cooperation Program for Giant Pandas" with the United States and Japan in 1994, and they are also the first pair of twins in the world who have been naturally nurtured and survived by a female animal. They are five years old this year.

Editor: Feng Ye