Chinese photographer holds exhibition of...

Chinese photographer Zhou Mengqi launched an exhibition on giant panda Sunday in Adelaide Zoo of South Australia. The exhibition, with 50 photos, was titled "Giant panda and its hometown." "Giant pa

Face-lift for Leshan Giant Buddha nears ...

A major restoration of Leshan Giant Buddha, a World Heritage site, is nearly completed and it is expected to meet tourists next month. A new round of physical examination and major repairs for the wo

Chinese photographer holds exhibition of...

ADELAIDE, Australia, March 24 (Xinhua) -- Chinese photographer Zhou Mengqi launched an exhibition on giant panda Sunday in Adelaide Zoo of South Australia. The exhibition, with 50 photos, was titled

China Focus: China demolishing hydro dam...

CHANGSHA, March 21 (Xinhua) -- A central Chinese province has stopped operation of 34 hydropower plants and demolished 10 dams in the past two years in a key reserve of giant salamanders, the world's

7 major clades of wild Chinese giant sal...

CHANGSHA, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists identified seven major clades of critically-endangered wild Chinese giant salamander in China, with three clades inhabiting Hunan's Zhangjiajie, a ma

'Giant panda's mom' pushes national park...

Wildlife protection has been one of the hot-button subjects in China lately as the country has put ecological protection on the agenda. Especially in the case of the giant panda, tremendous efforts t

Housewarming party at U.S. national zoo ...

A housewarming party inside the giant panda house at Smithsonian's National Zoo here on Saturday brought joy and cheer to visitors, fueling a fresh round of "panda fever" in the U.S. capital. Genevi

Across China: Official book tells untold...

A century and a half after French zoologist Armand David became the first European to discover the giant panda, an officially-compiled chronicle on the mammal has been published to help improve com