Wei Rongping, director of the Bifengxia Panda Base of the Chinese Research Center for the Protection of Giant Pandas, examines a panda cub in Ya'an of southwest China's Sichuan Province on Sept. 4, 2007. A total of 22 giant pandas have been artificially bred in China this year, with 21 of them surviving.

 

Female giant panda "Jin Zhu" looks after her baby at the Bifengxia Panda Base of the Chinese Research Center for the Protection of Giant Pandas in Ya'an of southwest China's Sichuan Province on Sept. 4, 2007. A total of 22 giant pandas have been artificially bred in China this year, with 21 of them surviving.

 

 

 

(Xinhua News Agency September 5, 2007)