Many people’s sole purpose for visiting Chengdu is to see the Giant Panda Breeding and Research Center. While the center has been very successful in breeding the pandas, it seems to be supported by a zoo exclusively for Giant and Red Pandas. It’s not a bad zoo in general, the habitats for the pandas are pretty large and they are fed well and only their natural diet (I think mainly because they are too picky to eat anything else), so all in all it isn’t a bad place for a zoo. But in general, I do hate zoos. Anyway, the provincial government of Sichuan, and the national government, are been taking great care to preserve the Giant Panda, which is a good thing because the animal does very little to help themselves. There is a population
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