Giant pandas, a species known to have survived on the earth for at least 8 million years, once spread across my country hundreds of thousands of years ago, reaching as far north as Zhoukoudian, Beijing, and as far south as the borders of Vietnam and Myanmar. Nowadays, due to the intensified impact of climate change and human activities, its wild populations are gradually hiding in the depths of China's six major mountain systems, including the Minshan Mountains, Qionglai Mountains, Liangshan Mountains, Daxiangling, Xiaoxiangling and Qinling Mountains. Habitat fragmentation has caused wild giant pandas to be split into 33 local populations, and the last homes of giant pandas have become "isolated islands".

Therefore, build ecological corridors and restore the habitat of degraded giant pandas It is particularly important to improve the quality of giant panda habitats and protect wild animal and plant resources in the area.

On December 5, 2016, the 30th meeting of the Central Leading Group for Comprehensive Deepening of Reform reviewed and approved the "Pilot Plan for the Giant Panda National Park System", a state-led project on giant pandas and their habitats. The highest level of protection begins here.

In October 2021, the Giant Panda National Park was officially established, spanning the three provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu, across five mountain systems, and covering most of the wild giant panda populations and their habitats.

The Huangtuliang Corridor is located between Jiuzhaigou County, Pingwu County, Qingchuan County in Sichuan Province and Wenxian County in Gansu Province. It is surrounded by nearly 10 protected areas related to giant pandas. A golden tourist route from Chengdu and Mianyang to the Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area was rerouted as a result, and the highway actively "drilled" into tunnels to avoid giant pandas.

For some major projects built near the giant panda corridor, roundabout measures have also been adopted. The Chengdu-Lanzhou Railway passes through the Minshan Mountains and actively avoided giant panda habitats during planning and design. To this end, the construction volume was increased by 20%. Adjacent to the Jiudingshan area of ​​the Giant Panda National Park, sound and visual barriers have been specially installed at the exit of the Yuelongmen Tunnel to minimize disturbing the animals.

Currently, the Giant Panda National Park has implemented a total of 6 giant panda corridors including the Tudiling Corridor, Nibashan Corridor, and Huangtuliang Corridor, promoting the opening up of 13 giant panda areas. population.

Ecological corridors are like bridges of life, closely connecting "panda islands" to form a grand network for biodiversity protection. In this network, the giant panda's home is more complete, and more than 8,000 companion animals and plants living in the giant panda's habitat are also protected.

Not only that, the Giant Panda National Park has also adopted a variety of measures to promote the protection and restoration of giant panda habitats. Focusing on natural restoration, supplemented by a combination of natural restoration and artificial restoration, in some key ecologically fragile areas, enclosures, afforestation, low-efficiency forest transformation, forest species renewal and other methods are used to improve the exposed land, To address issues such as vegetation destruction, high-density artificial pure forests, and forest degradation, we strive to connect fragmented habitats into patches. In order to build a home for giant pandas, some areas have taken the initiative to shut down small hydropower stations, mines, stone processing plants, etc., and restore a complete home for giant pandas.

At the same time, relevant companies are also participating in giant panda protection work. For example, the "Panda Backyard Project" raises equipment and materials needed for environmental temperature control equipment, environmental cleaning, and epidemic prevention and disinfection for the giant panda rescue base. In addition, it also donated part of the funds to effectively guarantee the rescue and rewilding of giant pandas, and explored a model suitable for the wild rescue of giant pandas in their native areas.

From "people advance and cats retreat" to "people retreat and cats advance", what everyone faces is not only an upgrade of the species protection pattern, but also the establishment of a new ecosystem governance system. Behind protection and development is a change in management systems and mechanisms. Allowing giant pandas to continue to breed in a complete, continuous and wider home range is the original intention of the establishment of the Giant Panda National Park, and it is also mankind's unchanging commitment to the giant panda, a unique species in China.