A giant panda museum has been built in Fuzhou, capital of southeast China's Fujian Province.

Fuzhou Giant Panda Museum, which opened to the public on December 26, is situated at the foot of Dameng Mount and has a floor space of 900 sq m.

It is China's second giant panda museum built according to international standards. The first giant panda museum is based in Sichuan Province, the main habitat of the world's giant pandas.

According to local sources, the museum features the origin of giant pandas, ecological behavior, protection of the animal, as well as its situation in Fujian.

It displays precious literary documents on giant pandas, fossils of giant pandas from southwest China's Guizhou Province, and photos on the life of the giant pandas.

The museum will serve as an important center for protecting giant pandas, doing scientific research on the endangered species, increasing publicity of giant pandas, spreading scientific education on the animal among youngsters, as well as for promoting cultural exchanges across the Taiwan Straits.

Giant pandas are one of the most famous endangered species and it is estimated that there are about only 1,000 left in the world, most of them living in the mountains around the Sichuan Basin of southwest China.