From Xinhua News Agency via China Net:
China has made a 15-year plan to restore the habitat and increase the artificially-bred population of the giant pandas unique to the Qinling Mountains in northwestern province of Shaanxi, which have been confirmed as a new sub-species of giant pandas on the verge of extinction.
Currently, the number of Qinling Mountain pandas is approximately 300 as against more than 1,300 non-Qinling pandas living elsewhere in China. [Full Text]