Baoxing boosted by panda links
By Huang Zhiling And Li Yuin Baoxing, Sichuan | China Daily | Updated: 2015-04-20 09:50
Investment in county seat has earned an AAAA rating from the National Tourism Administration
Baoxing county in Sichuan province is inextricably linked by panda enthusiasts to Jean Pierre Armand David, a French priest.
A naturalist at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, David was the first Westerner to discover and document the giant panda in Baoxing in 1869. He sent a panda specimen from the county to the museum's Henri Milne Edwards, who in 1870 published a paper declaring the panda a new species.
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