Most of the remaining pandas at the research facility hit by the quake will be moved to other facilities and zoos around China. There will remain there until the new breading centre is built is two to three years.

Seven of the babies born last year will remain at the centre. The reason for the move is that it is still dangerous around there with after shocks still causing mudslides. The panda enclosures are in a bad state and unfit for the pandas.