Chongqing Zoo

Chongqing Zoo is located in Yangjiaping, Jiulongpo District, covering an area of 410000 square meters. It is a large comprehensive park in Chongqing. The park was built in 1954, formerly known as the Western Park. After 1958, it was mainly used to display animals, so it was renamed. The park is surrounded by hills, dense bamboo and wood, green grass and flowers. The green peach blossom river flows around the park. There are more than 20 animal museums, with more than 150 species and 1200 animals. Among them, the rare animals are giant panda, golden monkey, white iron leaf monkey, twist horn sheep, wildebeest and Turkey. The park is also the population base of the National South China tiger breeding center. There is also a man-made lake in the park, which is connected with small islands, curved bridges and scenic pavilions. The park also has children's paradise, roller skating rink, open-air stage, reading room, restaurant, tea garden, etc.

Chongqing Zoo

Chongqing Zoo, formerly known as the West Park, is located in Yangjiaping street, Jiulongpo District, Chongqing City, covering an area of 45 hectares. It receives nearly 2 million Chinese and foreign tourists annually, including 100000 foreign visitors annually. It is one of the large-scale urban zoos in China.

According to animal classification, Chongqing Zoo has formed 8 functional divisions: Children's play area, bird area, central leisure area, primate area, raptor area, herbivore area, science popularization area and back mountain leisure area; 11 Raptor venues are built; children's paradise, roller skating rink, open-air stage, reading room, restaurant and tea garden are built in the park; more than 240 kinds of animals are raised, including more than 4200 rare animals Food: giant panda, South China tiger, golden monkey, white iron leaf monkey, twisted horn sheep, wildebeest and Turkey.

Chongqing Zoo is the executive director of China zoo Association and a member of the world zoo Federation. In January 2009, the National Tourism Administration approved Chongqing Zoo as a national AAAA tourist attraction.

Development and evolution

In 1953, Chongqing Zoo began to build.

In August 1953, the park preparation team was formed by the former Chongqing Municipal Construction Bureau. In September of the same year, Professor Liang Baiyun of southwest people's Science Museum and Professor Li Chaoran of Southwest Agricultural College were invited to guide the park site selection, survey, planning and design.

On January 7, 1954, 10 hectares of land was requisitioned for the construction of "Yangjiaping Park" in xiashiqiao, Yangjiaping, with Taohuaxi as the center. The infrastructure construction started in March of the same year and was completed at the end of December. It was named "Western Park".

On January 24, 1955, the Western Park was officially opened.

On March 28, 1958, Comrade Mao Zedong inspected the Chongqing Iron and steel company, and later went to the West Park (the predecessor of Chongqing Zoo). He instructed: "this park should be built well, serve the steel workers and the people of Chongqing.". Later, the original Chongqing Municipal People's government decided to expand the West Park into a zoo. The first phase will be expanded to 22.3 hectares.

In 1959, the second phase of the park was expanded to 44.5 hectares.

In October 1960, the West Park was renamed "Chongqing Zoo".

In 1961, after Chongqing Zoo was borrowed and returned some land according to the policy, the area was 41 hectares, and then expanded to 48 hectares. After that, a comprehensive plan was made to build large animal houses, increase animal species, adjust greening and add service facilities.

In 1962, the goldfish Hall of Chongqing Zoo was completed and fully restored in 2006.

In 1966, Chongqing Zoo was built into a medium-sized zoo.

In 1979, tourists from Chongqing Zoo bought tickets to enter the park, the highest number of 2.371 million in 24 years.

In October 2002, the bird talk forest of Chongqing Zoo was completed, covering an area of 2.7 hectares.

In 2008, the hippopotamus Hall of Chongqing Zoo was converted into a fully open building.

In September 2008, the lovely animal area of Chongqing Zoo was built into a new ecological venue.

In October 2015, the comprehensive Zoological Museum of Chongqing Zoo started construction and was opened to tourists on October 1, 2016, with an area of 740 square meters and a construction fund of more than 2 million yuan.

In May 2016, the construction of the penguin Hall of Chongqing Zoo began, which was opened to tourists on October 1 of the same year, with an area of 470 square meters and a construction fund of nearly 2 million yuan.

In October 2016, the animal feed distribution center of Chongqing Zoo was rebuilt and put into use on the original site of the feed room.

Park layout

General layout

Chongqing Zoo Park has luxuriant ancient and famous trees, a wide variety of plants, with a green space rate of 71% and a green coverage rate of 85%. According to the classification of animals, it has formed eight functional sub areas: Children's play area, bird area, central leisure area, primate area, Raptor area, herbivore area, science popularization area and back mountain leisure area. There are 11 Raptor stadiums.

 

There is an artificial lake in the garden, which is connected with small island, curved bridge and scenic Pavilion. In the park, there are children's paradise, roller skating rink, open-air stage, reading room, restaurant, tea garden, etc.

 

Chongqing Zoo science classroom is located next to children's Park, covering an area of about 230 square meters. For children aged 3-12 years old, many special activities such as animal science movies, hand-made paper-cut, mask painting, Specimen Exhibition and free reading of animal science books have been set up all year round. Through the exhibition and explanation of animal living environment, physical features and living habits, people's awareness of animals has been expanded and people's awareness of caring for the ecological environment has been enlightened.

 

The animal feed distribution center of Chongqing Zoo was rebuilt from the original site of the feed room, with a building area of 468 square meters and a floor area of 237 square meters. It was officially put into use in October 2016. After the completion of the new feed distribution center, it will have a complete feed processing production line (including pellet feed production), animal feed nutrition analysis, detection of aflatoxin and pesticide residues in feed and raw materials and other functions. The feed distribution center has also set up a science popularization activity room, which can effectively carry out relevant science popularization interactive activities and carry out science popularization.

 

supporting facilities

In terms of design and layout, the amusement projects of Chongqing Zoo are suitable for young children (such as horse, train, happy combination, etc.), adults (such as rushing forward, inertia pulley, etc.), staff controlled projects (such as double flying, self-control aircraft, etc.), and tourists operated projects (such as viaduct, trot, etc.) Car, etc.).

 

Animal resources

There are more than 20 zoological museums in Chongqing Zoo, with more than 240 species and 4200 animals. Among them, the rare animals are giant panda, red panda, takin, argali, South China tiger, clouded leopard, golden cat, Asian elephant, etc.

 

Main facilities

Amphibious Museum

Covering an area of 4000 square meters, the amphibious climbing Hall of Chongqing Zoo ranks the first in scale in Southwest China. It has 55 species of reptiles, with a total of more than 400 animals, including Chinese turtle, Asian giant turtle, Temple Turtle, sea turtle, etc.

 

Orangutan house

Chongqing Zoo orangutan house covers an area of 2360 square meters, raising chimpanzees and orangutans.

 

Goldfish Restaurant

The goldfish Museum covers an area of 1.94 hectares, with a construction area of 977 square meters. There is a goldfish Gallery, displaying more than 30 kinds of goldfish and tropical fish, with nearly 1000 pieces.

 

Birdsong forest

There are more than 10000 birds at home and abroad, including more than 30 species of rare birds and animals from America, Europe, Africa and Southeast Asia, including the largest purple and Blue Macaw, beautiful flamingo, black swan and so on.

 

Lovely animal park

The lovely animal park covers an area of 4679 square meters, in which alpaca, raccoon, porcupine, Xiang pig, rabbit, lamb and other animals are raised.

 

Hippo Pavilion

The hippopotamus Pavilion covers an area of about 700 square meters, mainly displaying large omnivorous mammals hippopotamus.

 

Panda House

As of March 2017, the number of giant pandas in Chongqing Zoo has reached 15 (including 3 exhibited in Toronto, Canada), ranking first among zoos in China.

 

On June 23, 2019, giant pandas "Lanxiang" and "mangzai" in Chongqing Zoo gave birth to twins respectively. The twins born to Lanxiang are all male, while the twins born to mangzi are a pair of "Sister Flowers".

 

Penguin Pavilion

Penguin Pavilion is divided into two parts: landscape gallery and breeding management room. Landscape exhibition gallery is divided into inner exhibition gallery and outer exhibition gallery. The design and decoration of the external exhibition corridor is ice and snow landscape in line with the penguin's original ecological living environment, which is divided into two activity areas: onshore and underwater. Outside the exhibition gallery, visitors can watch the sitting stairs of the rest area and the penguins. The inner Exhibition Gallery is designed with floor to floor panoramic glass up to 3 meters high, and visitors can observe penguin diving.

 

Comprehensive Zoological Museum

Sichuan Academy of fine arts is invited to paint the inner wall of the museum. In combination with the wild living environment of tigers, leopards, bears, arctic foxes and other animals, different kinds of original ecological features such as forests, plains, ice and snow polar regions are drawn in the form of frescoes. At the same time, habitat, nest and other facilities are built.

The comprehensive Zoological Museum is divided into flat floor and upper exhibition gallery

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