Proposed national park not just to protect pandas

THE NATIONAL FORESTRY and Grassland Administration is soliciting public opinions on its plan of establishing the first national park for giant pandas. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

The planned national park for giant pandas, if finished, will cover an area of 27,134 square kilometers and stretch across the borders of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.

To establish such a national park is necessary for the protection of giant pandas. China has been making great efforts to protect giant pandas both by improving the wild environments for them and breeding them in protection centers.