I don't like animals in captivity, but the opportunity to see a live panda took over. - History reference Originally, right after the founding of the PRC, it was known as the Western Outskirts Park. Its territory has the appearance of classical Chinese gardens. It combines artificial plantations of flowers and thickets of natural plants, dense groves of trees, patches of meadows, small streams, lotus ponds and small hills, literally dotted with pavilions and aviaries. The zoo's brightest stars are the giant pandas, among other inhabitants the Sichuan golden short-nosed monkeys, Manchurian tigers, white-lipped fallow deer, Tibetan yaks, huge sea turtles, polar bears from the North Pole, kangaroos from Australia and zebras from Africa are popular with tourists.→