Chengdu Zoo is located between the North Second Ring Road and the Third Ring Road in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, on the right side of Sichuan-Shaanxi Road, next to Zhaojue Temple Automobile Center Station, opposite to Zhaojue Temple City Wall, a famous temple in western Sichuan, and 4 kilometers away from the urban area. The whole park area is 17.73 hectares, and the green coverage rate is 88.4 1%.
Chengdu Zoo, founded in 1953, is a differential budget institution approved by the editorial board of Chengdu. After nearly 50 years of construction and development, more than 30 groups of animal houses with different shapes have been built, and it has become a characteristic park with more than 300 species and more than 3,000 animals (heads) of rare and endangered wild animals under national key protection, such as mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds and ornamental goldfish. It receives 6.5438+0.8 million visitors a year, making it the largest zoo in southwest China and the fourth among the top ten zoos in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
Chengdu Zoo was rated as "Top 500 in the World" by the United Nations Environment Programme and "Top Ten Zoos in China" by the Ministry of Construction? China Society of Science and Technology awarded the honorary title of "National Excellent Popular Science Education Base".
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China Tourism News Network: tour2.com/viewnews/2013/1/04/xxhb3yzlrli8kyx0.shtml.