Tangjiahe Nature Reserve was founded in 1978 by Sichuan province government, and upgraded as the national class nature reserve mainly protecting Giant panda and its residency in 1986. It is a nature reserve of both protecting wild animal and forests. It is about 40,000 hectare located in Qingchuan county, north east of Chengdu. It is belong to the Mingshan mountain series.  

     

There are diverse recourses in Tangjiahe Nature Reserve. According to the investigation, there are 430 spinal animals, and 72 of them are in the national list of special protection, even first class protection animal reached 13 types. It is said about 60 giant pandas, more than 1000 golden monkeys ( Brelich’s snub-nose monkey ), over 1200 takins lived here, and also there are more 2422 plants series, and 12 series are in national class special protection. It is one of the main residence of Giant panda, and classified by the WWF as the A class nature Reserve, also the hot place for study wild animal worldwide. It has the reputation of “Natural Gene Stores “, “ Home of Life” , etc.