Beijing Zoo

Located in Xizhimenwai street, Xicheng District, Beijing, Beijing Zoo is one of the largest and most complete zoos in China. It has a history of more than 100 years since the 32nd year of Guangxu. The zoo is divided into East, South and North districts. The main entrance is located in the East District, and the North District also has Beijing Aquarium (additional tickets are required).

There are precious animals from China, such as giant panda, golden monkey, Siberian tiger, white lipped deer, elk (four unlike), pony, Red Crowned Crane, and representative animals from all over the world, such as African chimpanzee, Australian kangaroo, leopard, Mexican manatee, European bison, etc. Amphibious reptile museum is divided into two floors, displaying more than 100 kinds of reptiles from all over the world, including one of the world's largest crocodiles - alligators. You can refer to the signs in the park or the guide map on the official website http://www.bjzoo.com/intozoo/map.html , choose the venue you like.

When you play in the zoo, you can also take children to the science museum to learn about animals. The science museum often holds various science lectures. The specific time and courses can be found on the official website: http://www.bjzoo.com/science/museum.html .

The zoo has a large area of green trees, which is very suitable for outings and parent-child activities. Near the zoo, there is a famous clothing wholesale market in Beijing (known as "dongpi" in Beijing), as well as the National Library, Beijing Planetarium and Zizhuyuan Park.

Beijing Zoo

Beijing Zoo is located in Xizhimenwai street, Xicheng District, Beijing, adjacent to Beijing exhibition hall and Moscow Restaurant in the East. It covers an area of about 86 hectares and has a water surface of 8.6 hectares. Founded in 1906, it is the earliest zoo in China to open up and to raise and display the most kinds of animals. More than 5000 species of exhibition animals and more than 10000 species of marine fish and organisms were raised. It receives more than 6 million Chinese and foreign tourists every year. It is one of the biggest zoos in China and a world-famous zoo.

Huang Yan, member of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference and director of the Beijing Municipal Planning Commission, told the Beijing Times on March 7, 2016 that Beijing is studying the partial or partial relocation of Beijing Zoo for the sake of traffic management and animal living environment.

From September 28, 2018, ticket sales will stop after the park is "full".

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Historical evolution

Garden Construction in late Qing Dynasty

The history of Beijing zoo can be traced back to 1906. At that time, it was called "wanyang garden"

. Its predecessor was the agricultural experimental field of the Ministry of agriculture, industry and Commerce of the Qing Dynasty. The experimental field was built on the former sites of Leshan garden, Jiyuan (also known as "sanbeizi garden"), Guangshan temple and Hui'an temple. The original intention is to learn from the advanced experience of the west, "open up the atmosphere, revitalize agriculture.".

The completed farm covers an area of about 71 hectares. In addition to many beautiful buildings, there are also laboratories, agricultural equipment rooms, fertilizer rooms, silkworm rooms, greenhouses, farmers' houses, etc. All kinds of crops were divided into five experiments, which were "grain wheat experiment", "sericulture experiment", "vegetable experiment", "fruit wood experiment" and "flower experiment". The attached zoo covers an area of only 1.5 hectares (that is, the southeast corner of Beijing Zoo). The animals on display at first were duanfang, the Minister of Nanyang and governor of Liangjiang. Some animals bought back from Germany and more than 100 species of animals presented to the Qing government by governors from all over the country. There is a greenhouse built in the plant room, and a variety of exotic flowers are displayed.

On June 16 of the 34th year of Guangxu (1908), the farm was completed and opened to receive tourists. The ticket price is eight copper dollars, and the price for children and followers is reduced by half. If you need to visit the zoo and botanical garden, you need to buy another ticket. The ticket price of the zoo is eight copper dollars, and that of the botanical garden is four copper dollars. On both sides of the East and west of the main gate of the farm, there is a cabin; on the east side is a ticket office, with two windows, namely, the south window and the west window; the south window sells men's tickets in white; the west window sells women's tickets in red. The west one is the storage room. If there are large items and important conditions that are inconvenient to bring into the entrance, you can deposit them here. Visitors enter from the east gate, male left, female right. After entering the gate, the ticket was checked and cut.

Because the agricultural experimental site is located in a place with convenient transportation, and it is the first agricultural experimental site with the nature of a park integrating animals and plants in the capital, so at the beginning of its establishment, there was a constant flow of people, which was very lively. Even Cixi and Guangxu visited the garden twice. The name of the agricultural experimental farm soon spread to the capital.

Changes of the Republic of China

After the 1911 Revolution, the Qing government collapsed, and the name of the farm changed from "central farm" to "national Beiping Natural Museum", to "horticultural farm of the General Administration of industry" to "Beiping horticultural farm".

During the Anti Japanese War, only one Asian elephant starved to death, and the beasts in the garden, such as lions, tigers and leopards, were poisoned by the Japanese army for air defense in 1943. At the end of the Anti Japanese war in 1945, the experimental farm was occupied by the Japanese army as a garrison warehouse, and was taken over by the national government as a temporary barracks for air defense forces. When it was reopened in 1946, there were only ten monkeys, geese, rabbits, pigeons, turkeys, ostriches, peacocks, eagles, sunflower parrots, white parrots and pink parrots One for each. When Beijing was liberated in 1949, there were only parrots, 13 macaques and an EMU left in the park.

Western suburb park in the early days of the people's Republic of China

In February 1949, the Beijing Municipal People's government took over the Beijing Zoo, then known as "Beiping agricultural and Forestry Experimental Institute", and renamed it "Beiping agricultural and Forestry Experimental Farm". In view of the fact that the conditions of the farm are not suitable for the experiment of farming and mulberry, it was renovated, transformed and afforested and named "Xijiao Park" on September 1 of the same year.

On March 1, 1950, Xijiao Park was officially opened. To prepare for the opening of Xijiao Park, the park management office repaired the enclosure, Peony Pavilion, CHENFENG hall, zoo animal house, etc. They also renovated bird cages, deer sheds, Monkey Mountain and Yonglu, added some small animals, and purchased birds such as yellow Finch, crossbilled Finch, golden wing, Pacific bird, swallow Finch, Turkey, eagle, grey crane, wild goose, deer, wolf, mouse and leopard. Chairman Mao, chairman Zhu De and other national leaders also transferred precious animals such as Asian elephant, lynx, gibbon, black bear, big ear sheep, elk, Indian rhinoceros and so on to the zoo for breeding and exhibition. In 1952, the general office of the CPC Central Committee presented the horses "Ju Hua Qing", "Da Hong mule" and "tie Qing Ma" that comrades Mao Zedong, Zhu De and Ren Bishi had ridden during the war years to the zoo for breeding and exhibition, and transferred the historical materials of the three war horses to the zoo for exhibition and publicity.

In May 1951, Secretary General Xue Zizheng of Beijing Municipal People's Government directed the work of the park: the western suburb park has a bright future and should be built into a large-scale zoo. If you have the opportunity, you can send people to visit the Soviet Union and democratic countries in Eastern Europe to learn from the experience, so as to expand the capital zoo. On November 5, 1952, the western suburb park first sent a five person delegation headed by the director of the western suburb park to the zoos of the Soviet Union, Poland and Eastern European countries for three months. At the same time, more than 30 animals, including South China tiger, leopard, brown bear, rhesus monkey, python, golden rooster, silver Rooster and parrot, were brought in exchange to establish international animal exchange relations. In February 1953, the first batch of animals exchanged by the central animal service of the Soviet Union and Leipzig Zoo of the German Democratic Republic came to the zoo, with a total of 48 animals of more than 10 species. Among them, white bear, white fox, puma, spotted hyena and yellow vulture are rare animals on display for the first time in China. After that, extensive animal exchanges were carried out with Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and other Eastern European countries, as well as North Korea and Vietnam. Later, it established international animal exchange relations with Japan, Myanmar, India, Indonesia and other countries.

The feeding and management of animals is a scientific and systematic development in the process of investigation, exploration and learning from foreign advanced experience. In the early 1950s, he hired a teacher from the Veterinary Department of Beijing Agricultural University as a veterinary consultant, and then Huang Fengkun, a doctor of veterinary medicine studying in the United States, as a consultant. After 1951, 15 college students assigned by Peking University, Beijing Agricultural University, Sun Yat sen University and Sichuan University came to the park to conduct preliminary scientific experiments and explorations on the feed, feeding and management of wild animals. In June 1954, with the approval of Beijing municipal government, the municipal garden Department invited the director and veterinarian of Moscow Zoo of the Soviet Union to give lectures and experience in the park, and held a 33 day training course on animal management, which was attended by 14 people in the park. In April 1956, a scientific research group was set up in the park to focus on the breeding of precious animals such as giant panda, golden monkey, black swan, Red Crowned Crane, etc.

With the development of animal species and quantity, the infrastructure construction of the zoo has also developed rapidly. Since 1950

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