Two-week-old Giant Panda(20010814)Shen-shen, a two-week-old Giant Panda, sleeps inside an incubator at the Chengdu Research Base in Chengdu, China, on Aug. 2, 2001. Shen-shen's mother was impregnated by artificial insemination at this research center in southwestern China. Thirteen other giant pandas are pregnant and expected to give birth within a few months -- part of a campaign to rescue China's national symbol from the brink of extinction. |  |
China Expects Panda Baby Boom(20010813)A Chinese veterinarian looks at a newborn panda cub resting inside an incubator at Chengdu giant panda centre in southwestern Sichuan province, in this July, 2001. Thirteen pandas in Sichuan are likely to give birth in the next few months.  |  |
13 Pandas Expected to Give Birth (20010813)Thirteen pandas being raised in southwest China's Sichuan Province are likely to have babies this fall, experts at Giant Panda Breeding Technology Committee of China (GPBTCC) said Saturday. |  |
Baby Pandas Given Olympic Games Related Names(20010719)Giant panda Lili gave birth to two babies in Chengdu, Sichuan Province on July 14. For celebrating Beijing's success in its bid for hosting the 2008 Olympic Games, the two baby pandas were respectively named "Shenshen" and "Ao'ao" --which together mean in Chinese application for hosting the Olympic Games. Photo shows the elder sister "Shenshen" stretching herself. |  |
Giant Panda in Summer (20010714)A giant panda named Parrs plays with water happily in the bathpool in the Fuzhou Giant Panda World in Fuzhou city, capital of southeast China's Fujian Province, July 13, 2001. The working stuff has installed air conditioners in giant pandas' living rooms since it is so hot recently. In addition, enough food and cool water are provided to ensure the health of the giant pandas in summer. |  |
Giant Panda "An'an", a Father to Be (20010621)An'an, a giant panda living in the Ocean Park of Hong Kong, will become a father this autumn as his bride "White Snow" in Giant Panda Protection Center of Wolong, Sichuan Province, is expected to give birth to a cub at that time. Seen on the picture is An'an taking food in his den. |  |
Wolong: Home to Wild Giant Pandas (20010615)Latest statistics show that the number of wild giant pandas has increased 3 percent over that of the 1980s and their habitat has been expanded in Wolong Nature Reserve, Sichuan Province. |  |
Number of Giant Pandas Climbs Up (20010612)A US tourist has a photo taken with a giant panda at the Giant Panda Breeding Center of the Wolong Nature Reserve in southwest China's Sichuan Province on June 11. The number of the wild giant pandas in the world's famous giant panda reserve has increased by 3 percent over the 1980's. |  |
Taiwan Professor Adopts Pandas in Sichuan (20010413)Professor Ding Zhongjiang and his wife (front) pose for a group photo with their two adoptive pandas Thursday in Chengdu Panda Breeding Base in this capital city of China's southwest Sichuan province, April 12, 2001. Ding Zhongjiang, professor of southeast China's Taiwan province, named the two pandas "Tuantuan" and "Yuanyuan", which mean reunion in Chinese, to show his expectation of Taiwan's reunion with the mainland. |  |
Giant Panda Recovers from Serious Nose Bleeding (20010406)A giant panda in Fuzhou, capital of Southwest China's Fujian province, April 5. The panda, once a friendship envoy to U.S., has just recovered from a serious nose bleeding which resulted for high blood pressure. |  |
