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{{Infobox animal
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1999|8|21}}
|birth_place = [[San Diego Zoo]], [[California]]
|species = [[Giant panda]]
|residence = [[Ya'an]], [[China]]
|image = Panda eating Bamboo.jpg
|caption = Hua Mei, approx. two years old, between 2001 and 2002
}}
'''Hua Mei''' ({{zh|t='''華美'''|s='''华美'''}}; intended meaning: "China/USA")  (born  August 21, 1999) is a female [[giant panda]]. She is the first giant panda cub to survive to adulthood in the [[United States]]. She was born to [[Bai Yun]] (mother) and [[Shi Shi (giant panda)|Shi Shi]] (father) at the [[San Diego Zoo]]. Millions of people around the world watched Hua Mei grow up via the zoo's Panda Cam.
Hua Mei is the elder half-sister to five other cubs born to Bai Yun: [[Mei Sheng]], [[Su Lin (giant panda, born 2005)|Su Lin]], [[Zhen Zhen]], [[Yun Zi]], and [[Xiao Liwu]]. These cubs' father is [[Gao Gao]].
In February 2004, upon reaching adulthood, Hua Mei was relocated to the [[Wolong National Nature Reserve|Wolong Reserve]] in [[Sichuan Province]], [[People's Republic of China|China]], where she was reportedly doing very well. By the end of 2007, she had given birth to 3 sets of twins: male twins [[Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan|Tuan Tuan]] and Mei Ling on September 1, 2004, male/female twins Wei Wei and Ting Ting on August 29, 2005, and another set of male twins, Hua Long and Hua Ao, on 16 July 2007.<ref>{{cite web|title=Returned panda gives birth to twin cubs|url=http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200409/02/eng20040902_155736.html|publisher=People's Daily Online|date=September 2, 2004}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Panda Hua Mei gives birth to twins again|url=http://www.newsgd.com/culture/culturenews/content/2007-07/17/content_4208496.htm|publisher=Guangdong News|date=July 17, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=San Diego Giant Panda Family Tree|url=http://www.pandasliveon.com/.a/6a00e54eddaaeb8833011570ddc639970c-pi|publisher=San Diego Zoo via www.pandasliveon.com}}</ref>
After the [[2008 Sichuan earthquake]] damaged much of the giant panda facility in Wolong, Hua Mei was relocated to the [[Bifengxia Panda Base]] in [[Ya'an]]. In July 2009, Hua Mei gave birth to a single female cub named Hao Hao.<ref>{{cite web|title=Good news: Hua Mei and Gong Zhu Deliver Cubs on the Same Day|url=http://www.pandaclub.net/view_e.jsp?tipid=1247125873454|publisher=Wolong Panda Club}}{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
Hua Mei delivered her eighth cub, a male named Yang Hu, in September 2010. Then she gave birth to her ninth cub, a female named Jia Jia, in August 2012 and a tenth cub, a male, in July 2013.<ref>{{citation|title=US-born panda gives birth to her 8th cub in China|url=http://www.physorg.com/news203947119.html|publisher=www.physorg.com}}</ref><ref>{{citation|title=Our Panda丨 In July 2018,she gave birth to a set of male/female twins named Yi Yi and Jiu Jiu. In October of 2019,she gave birth to a set of female twins named Meng Meng and Jin Du Du. Family|url=http://blogs.sandiegozoo.org/2015/03/20/our-panda-family-2/}}</ref>
In July 2018, she gave birth to a set of male/female twins named Yi Yi and Jiu Jiu. In October 2019, she gave birth to a set of female twins named Meng Meng and Jin Du Du.
==See also==
* [[List of giant pandas]]
* [[List of individual bears]]
==Notes==
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==External links==
* [http://www.sandiegozoo.org/pandacam/meet.html Panda Profile at San Diego Zoo] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203012154/http://www.sandiegozoo.org/pandacam/meet.html |date=2013-12-03 }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070713005305/http://www.liu.edu/cwis/CWP/library/exhibits/panda/panda.htm Photos of Hua Mei from birth through 3 years old]
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