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The Qinling Mountains are one of the few remaining places where the giant panda lives in the wild. Qinling lies in the middle of China. It is the watershed of China's two main rivers, the Yangtze and the Yellow River.

About 200-300 pandas live here. The panda population is distributed in separate mountain ranges, making the Qinling panda population very fragile.