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17-668: Tacheng prefecture is divided into 3 county level cities , 3 counties , and 1 autonomous county . See Emin Valley , Tarbagatai Mountains , Saur Mountains , Gurbantünggüt Desert . 46°45′N 82°59′E  /  46.75°N 82.99°E  / 46.75; 82.99 This Xinjiang location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . County-level city A county-level municipality ( Chinese : 县级市 ), county-level city or county city , formerly known as prefecture-controlled city (1949–1970: 专辖市 ; 1970–1983: Chinese : 地辖市 ),

34-485: A camera trap at an elevation of 4,080 m (13,390 ft). The same camera, installed in 2017, also captured images of snow leopards seven times. The region, including the Panda Research Center, was largely devastated by the catastrophic May 12, 2008 Sichuan earthquake , though the captive giant pandas were initially reported to be safe. Immediately after the quake, officials were unable to contact

51-609: A destructive force, but we are." Pandas from Wolong have been loaned to zoos all over the world to ensure breeding success. Bai Yun , who was the first female panda born at the Nature Reserve in 1991, was the first panda to be loaned to a zoo outside of China. From 1996 until 2019 she lived at the San Diego Zoo in California , where she gave birth to six cubs. When the conservation loan ended, 27 year old Bai Yun

68-1436: A somewhat similar naming convention is used for local government areas in some parts of Australia. For example, in New South Wales such a unit may often be called a "city" (rather than a traditional "shire"), and consist of "towns". E.g. City of Blue Mountains is made of a number of towns ( Katoomba , Springwood , etc.). Provinces Autonomous regions Sub-provincial autonomous prefectures Autonomous prefectures Leagues (Aimag) (abolishing) Prefectures Provincial-controlled cities Provincial-controlled counties Autonomous counties County-level cities Districts Ethnic districts Banners (Hoxu) Autonomous banners Shennongjia Forestry District Liuzhi Special District Wolong Special Administrative Region Workers and peasants districts Ethnic townships Towns Subdistricts Subdistrict bureaux Sum Ethnic sum County-controlled districts County-controlled district bureaux (obsolete) Management committees Town-level city Areas Villages · Gaqa · Ranches Village Committees Communities Capital cities New areas Autonomous administrative divisions National Central Cities History: before 1912 , 1912–49 , 1949–present As of 3 April 2023, there are 408 county-level cities in total: A sub-prefectural city

85-487: Is a county-level administrative division of the People's Republic of China . County-level cities have judicial but no legislative rights over their own local law and are usually governed by prefecture-level divisions , but a few are governed directly by province-level divisions . A county-level city is a "city" ( 市 ; shì ) and "county" ( 县 ; xiàn ) that have been merged into one unified jurisdiction. As such, it

102-661: Is a county-level city with powers approaching those of prefecture-level cities . Examples include, Xiantao ( Hubei ), Qianjiang ( Hubei ), Tianmen ( Hubei ) and Jiyuan ( Henan ). Wolong Special Administrative Region Wolong National Nature Reserve (from Chinese 卧龙 ; wòlóng ; 'crouching dragon'), officially known as Wolong Special Administrative Region , is a national protected area located in Wenchuan County in China . Established in 1963 with an initial size of about 20,000 ha (49,000 acres),

119-543: Is quite high due to extensive sand and gravel mining in stream. According to a 2001 research by Jianguo Liu , the rate of destruction is higher after the reserve's creation than before its creation. Using NASA 's satellite images and records of population, Liu's research team concluded that due to tourism and the increase in local population, the reserve is facing an unprecedented threat. "Tourists don't think they have an impact on panda habitat, but indirectly each visitor has some impact," Liu said. "We don't see ourselves as

136-407: Is simultaneously a city, which is a municipal entity, and a county, which is an administrative division of a prefecture. Most county-level cities were created in the 1980s and 1990s by replacing denser populated counties . County-level cities are not " cities " in the strictest sense of the word, since they usually contain rural areas many times the size of their urban, built-up area. This is because

153-529: The "China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda" (CCRCGP) was established to ensure a future for the giant pandas. The aim was to increase the number of pandas in captive-breeding programs, however with the ultimate goal to return a larger number of pandas to their original, natural habitats. When the cooperation started giant pandas were still listed as an endangered species by the IUCN . In 2016,

170-531: The IUCN reclassified the giant panda from being "endangered" to the new classification "vulnerable", affirming decade-long efforts to save the panda. A mountain stream runs through the Wolong Valley (where the reserve is); the stream is heavily armoured with boulders and smaller rounded stones. Stream waters are rather alkaline with pH levels in the range of 8.91. (Hogan, 2007) Water quality turbidity

187-487: The counties that county-level cities have replaced are themselves large administrative units containing towns , villages and farmland. To distinguish a "county-level city" from its actual urban area (the traditional meaning of the word "city"), the term " 市区 " (shìqū) or "urban area", is used. While the idea of a "city" being a unit consisting of several "towns" is not a common one in English-speaking world ,

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204-689: The devastating 2008 Sichuan earthquake , Wolong received up to 200,000 visitors every year. As one of the Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries , Wolong National Nature Reserve has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2006. The reserve became part of the Giant Panda National Park in 2020. In June 1980, the Chinese government started its cooperation with the World Wide Fund for Nature and

221-407: The reserve comprises different altitudes, it includes tropical and temperate climate zones and harbors species typically for the tropics, like sambar deer as well as species from temperate regions, like white-lipped deer , snow leopards and Turkestan lynxes . Camera-trap surveys conducted in the reserve area between 2005 and 2009 did not record any leopard . In 2018, a leopard was photographed by

238-532: The reserve was further expanded in 1975, covering an area of about 200,000 ha (490,000 acres) in the Qionglai Mountains region. It hosts over 4,000 species. According to China's Third National Giant Panda Survey, Wolong National Nature Reserve houses about 150 wild giant pandas . The reserve is also a home to many other endangered species including snow leopards , red pandas , golden snub-nosed monkeys , white-lipped deer and many plants. Before

255-409: The reserve. Five security guards at the reserve were killed by the earthquake. Six pandas escaped after their enclosures were damaged. By May 20, two pandas at the reserve were found to be injured, while the search continued for another two adult pandas that went missing after the quake. On May 28, 2008, nine-year-old Mao Mao (mother of five) was still missing, On Monday, June 9, she was found dead as

272-544: The reserve. Other typical larger Carnivora are the Ussuri dhole , Asian black bear , Asiatic golden cat , clouded leopard , red panda , hog badger and yellow-throated marten . Hooved mammals are represented by Sichuan takins , wild boar , musk deer , mainland serows , Chinese gorals , tufted deer and sambar deer . Other noticeable mammals include golden snub-nosed monkeys , Tibetan macaques , complex-toothed flying squirrels , bamboo rats , and porcupines . Because

289-403: Was returned to China together with her last-born old son, Xiao Liwu . The China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda engages in global cooperations with 16 zoos in 14 countries, providing the world's largest platform for the scientific research regarding the giant pandas. By 2019 a total of 19 other pandas have been returned to China. The giant panda is the most famous species of

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