Private Day Tour: Dujiangyan Panda Base and Irrigation Project

Dujiangyan Panda Base

The Panda Breeding and Research Center is home to over 50 giant pandas, red pandas, and some other endangered species. Visit the nursery to see the highly successful breeding program, walk among the bamboo groves and shady walkways, and view the pandas at rest or play. 

The sprawling 1.4-square-kilometer base is divided into seven individual zones for researching or caring for giant pandas, including a disease control area, a quarantine and isolation zone, a rehabilitation training area, a public education area, a natural landscape area, and an office. 

There are five panda breeding stations in Dujiangyan Panda Base and Shuangnan Garden, Diequan Garden, Panpan Garden, and Linze Garden are open to the public. 

Dujiangyan Irrigation Project

This ancient waterworks about 60 km northwest of Chengdu transformed the region. It is an amazing feat of engineering and construction and is a wonder of the world, and is a UNESCO world heritage site. This waterworks is still used to irrigate 5,300 square kilometers of land in the region. For thousands of years, it has helped to make Sichuan a prosperous agricultural province in China. It was used to not only control flooding on the Min River, but also to irrigate an arid region on the other side of a mountain around Chengdu. Visitors to the site will gain an appreciation of the ingenuity and history of people of the Qin Dynasty over 2000 years ago.