Yuan Wei, a forestry official in Shaanxi Province said Saturday that the province will build five green corridors to link 16 reserve areas in next five years to help giant pandas from different colonies "make friends" and "seek their Mr. or Miss Right," Xinhua reported.

The corridors of several kilometers wide will be lined with trees, paved with grass and cross highways from underground, said Yuan.

Five green corridors will be built to link 16 reserve areas in northwest China's Shaanxi Province in the next five years. [Photo: jfdaily.com]

The province has 22 pandas in captivity and 273 in wild, which live in 16 reserve zones. The zones are cut off from each other by mountains, rivers or roads, making it impossible for pandas from different zones to meet and mate, said Yuan.

"By linking the different zones together can help preventing inbreeding and better protect the species," said Yuan.