Infrared cameras in the Giant Panda National Park in southwest China's Sichuan Province captured footage of a wild giant panda mother and her cub roaming in a snowy bamboo forest on Thursday.
The footage shows that the two wild giant pandas roaming calmly in the forest at an elevation of about 2,800 meters above sea level in Chongzhou section of the national park.
The mother panda occasionally turns back to check on her cub, while the young one follows closely behind.
Judging by the body size, experts from the park said the panda cub was probably born in 2025 and is less than one year old.
In July 2025, infrared cameras in the park also captured a wild giant panda foraging in the bamboo forest on four separate occasions.
Currently, nearly 1,900 giant pandas are living in the wild in China.
The Giant Panda National Park protects approximately 1,340 wild giant pandas and also serves as a sanctuary for over 8,000 other rare and sympatric species, including golden snub-nosed monkey, snow leopard, dove tree and Chinese yew.
Apart from giant pandas, infrared cameras in Chongzhou section of the park also recorded more than 20 animals under first and second state protection at altitudes ranging from 750 to 2,700 meters from May to mid-December 2025, including Sichuan takin, Asian black bear, Temminck's tragopan and Chinese goral.
Wild panda mother, cub captured roaming in Sichuan forest
Wild panda mother, cub captured roaming in Sichuan forest
Wild panda mother, cub captured roaming in Sichuan forest
China's two major power grid operators -- the State Grid Corporation of China (State Grid) and China Southern Power Grid (CSG) -- reported a surge in investment in the first quarter of 2026, underscoring efforts to strengthen infrastructure construction and support high-quality socioeconomic development in China.
The State Grid said it completed fixed-asset investment worth 129 billion yuan (about 18.77 billion U.S. dollars) in the first three months of this year, up 37 percent the corresponding period of the previous year. The spending has driven more than 250 billion yuan (36 billion U.S. dollars) of investment across the wider industrial chain.
Key projects such as the Panxi ultra-high-voltage (UHV) alternating current (AC) line and the Anhui-Hubei back-to-back direct current (DC) project have seen ground broken for their construction, while several west-to-east power transmission projects have been upgraded.
Investment in connecting renewable energy generation to the grid was reported to have exceeded 10 billion yuan (1.45 billion U.S. dollars) from January to March, a year-on-year rise of more than 50 percent.
The CSG also reported robust growth in investment in the three-month period, with fixed-asset investment reaching 38.45 billion yuan (5.58 billion U.S. dollars), up about 50 percent from a year earlier.
Among its achievements, the company completed and commissioned 80 key projects, including the 220 kV cross-sea power grid interconnection project, which was officially put into operation on March 20. The project ended years of grid isolation on the Weizhou Island in south China by linking it to the main power system of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
The construction of 17 other major energy projects, including one linking the power grid of the Xizang Autonomous Region in southwest China with that of Guangdong Province in south China, is advancing rapidly. These projects are expected to bolster regional industries, the maritime economy, digital collaboration and the transition to green energy.
"By accelerating major project construction, investment during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030) is expected to approach 1 trillion yuan (145 billion U.S. dollars), driving a further 2 trillion yuan (290 billion U.S. dollars) of investment across upstream and downstream industries," said Dong Yanle, deputy general manager of the Engineering Construction Department under the China Southern Power Grid.
China ramps up power grid investment in January-March to boost growth
