In this photo taken from an infrared camera on April 1, 2018, a female giant panda (R) stays with its cub in a snow-covered bamboo forest in the Changqing National Nature Reserve in Yangxian county, Northwest China's Shaanxi province. [Photo/Xinhua]

East China's Hangzhou city plans to build a state-level giant panda research and breeding center, according to the Hangzhou Safari Park.

The park Saturday signed an agreement with the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda on the breeding project.

Construction of the center, which covers an area of 6 hectares, is scheduled to start this year and be finished by 2022.