China builds new home for giant pandas
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The construction of a new home for giant pandas was completed at a famed bamboo production center in east China's Zhejiang Province Friday.
The Anji Bamboo and Giant Panda Research Center, in Anji County in Hangzhou City in Zhejiang, is an attempt to protect giant pandas at different locations, after researchers found it necessary to transfer pandas out of Sichuan Province after a fatal earthquake killed one panda and damaged the breeding centers in 2008, a researcher from the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding said.
The new center has two breeding buildings, including a new building covering 1,400 square meters and equipped with a monitoring room, a drug room, a food room and an operating room. There is also an old building in the bamboo forest with a swimming pool, climbing poles and other facilities.
Currently, the new luxury home only has two pairs of pandas, which were transferred from the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding between 2008 and 2009.
Anji is known for bamboo plantations and many scenes from the famous movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" were shot in the county.
The center is expected to breed ten pandas in the future, said Zhang Hongliang, head of the institution.
A professional breeder has been invited to the new center and two other breeders will be employed in Anji, which boasts hundreds of square kilometers of bamboo, Zhang said.
