--- title: Depressed Panda Gets TV Amusement Park in China description: Yunnan Wild Animal Park in Kunming City, China. canonical: https://time.com/65352/watch-china-zoo-builds-amusement-park-to-cheer-up-a-sad-panda/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-16T18:43:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:52.364Z og:title: China Zoo Builds Amusement Park to Cheer Up a Sad Panda og:description: Equipped with a flat screen TV and new things to climb on. og:url: https://time.com/65352/watch-china-zoo-builds-amusement-park-to-cheer-up-a-sad-panda/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: China Zoo Builds Amusement Park to Cheer Up a Sad Panda twitter:description: Equipped with a flat screen TV and new things to climb on. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # WATCH: China Zoo Builds Amusement Park to Cheer Up a Sad Panda  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 16, 2014 6:43 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 16, 2014 6:43 PM UTC If you have ever been lonely after a good friend has moved away, then you’ll understand what one giant panda in southwest China is going through. Sijia has reportedly been depressed and not eating well since Meixi, her best friend for six months, left. So as a consolation, the staff at Yunnan Wild Animal Park set up parallel bars, swings, a [climbing](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-27030372) apparatus, and a flat screen TV that “plays video footage of her and her old companion,” [according to](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/10770288/Chinese-zoo-installs-TV-to-help-depressed-panda.html) _The Telegraph_. Now she is reportedly playing on her own more and more without any prodding. Watch her play in [this NBC video](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/amusement-park-built-cheer-depressed-panda-n80201): ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/65352/watch-china-zoo-builds-amusement-park-to-cheer-up-a-sad-panda/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/65352/watch-china-zoo-builds-amusement-park-to-cheer-up-a-sad-panda/"},"headline":"WATCH: China Zoo Builds Amusement Park to Cheer Up a Sad Panda","datePublished":"2014-04-16T18:43:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:52.364Z","description":"Yunnan Wild Animal Park in Kunming City, China.","url":"https://time.com/65352/watch-china-zoo-builds-amusement-park-to-cheer-up-a-sad-panda/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/65352/watch-china-zoo-builds-amusement-park-to-cheer-up-a-sad-panda/","name":"WATCH: China Zoo Builds Amusement Park to Cheer Up a Sad Panda"}}]}] ```