City government considers relocating China's first public zoo

Parts of the 110-year-old Beijing Zoo may be relocated to improve the living conditions of the animals and ease traffic jams for visitors, an official said.

"We are indeed working on the possibility of the partial relocation of the Beijing Zoo," Huang Yan, director of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Urban Planning and a CPPCC member, told the media recently.

Built in 1906, the Beijing Zoo is the first public zoo in China and receives 5 million visitors annually.