Animal

The giant panda is considered as a Chinese national treasure. Just over 1,000 survive in the wild, most of them to be found in Sichuan Province.

Giant panda

Flower

China does not have an "official" national flower, but the tree peony can be regarede as a national favorite. The tree penoy(Mudan) received the most votes in an unofficial survey conducted in 1994 in every district in China people to select a national flower.

National Flower

Bird

More bird species live in China than any other place in the world. Shaanxi Province's red ibis is also a national treasure. Only asome 1,500 of this highly endangered bird species exist. Other cranes found in China include the Siberian white, common, blace-necked, sarus, hooded, white-naped, and demoiselle.

Chinese copper pheasant      mandarin duck      white-crownd long-tailed pheasant

Tree

The oldest tree in the world is China's ginko, which first appeared during the Jurassic Age some 160 million years ago.