At the information hub of Jishi Media Co., Ltd. in Changchun City, Jilin Province, real-time monitoring images of Siberian tigers, Siberian leopards, lynx and other animals are presented on the large screen of the Siberian tiger and leopard sky-ground integrated monitoring system. These images come from a monitoring system composed of tens of thousands of real-time transmission cameras, with transmission support provided by 95 base stations.
Duan Zhaogang, Party Secretary and Director of the Manchurian Tiger and Leopard National Park Administration, said on the 11th that since 2017, the park’s conservation achievements can be summarized by a set of numbers: tigers have increased from 27 to 72; leopards have increased from 42 to 115. In November 2025, surveillance footage captured images of a breeding family with "one tiger and five cubs", setting a record for the highest single birth of cubs for a wild tiger in China.
Behind this is the persistence of thousands of front-line patrollers. Since 2021, these rangers have carried out more than 95,000 field patrols, with a total patrol mileage of nearly 490,000 kilometers, and have confiscated more than 10,000 illegal hunting equipment.
Sun Pengyu, head of the forestry and grass industry of Jishi Media, is responsible for the monitoring system that connects mountains and forests with cities. There are 95 700MHz base stations, each with a theoretical coverage area of 300 square kilometers; tens of thousands of real-time transmission cameras are covered with solar panels and equipped with low-temperature rechargeable batteries. It only takes as little as one minute to transmit images from the dense forest to the data center in Changchun.
This system also has a safety warning function. Once a tiger enters a pre-demarcated area, it can call the police in time. Since the early warning mechanism was put into operation at the end of 2022, no tiger injuries have occurred in the park. At the same time, the system also archives the markings of each tiger, and researchers can retrieve individual images on demand.
Jiang Chuan, deputy director of the Northeast Tiger and Leopard Culture International Communication Center of Jishi Media, is responsible for making the world "visible". 9 overseas self-owned accounts and 11 cooperative accounts publish content in four languages, covering 55 countries and regions. In December 2024, a modern version of a short video of "Fox fakes tiger's power" became a hot spot on the Internet: the park surveillance system captured a small fox following behind the mighty Siberian tiger, and secretly rolling in the tiger's urine, trying to get the tiger's scent.
"The significance of the monitoring system goes beyond protection." Duan Zhaogang said, "Protection for all, joint construction and sharing. Without joint construction, there will be no foundation, and without sharing, there will be no lasting power."
As dusk approached, the setting sun dyed the nearly 20,000 square meters of pink sandy beach golden red in the Sijinan River Shore Park on the banks of the Yitong River in Changchun City. Children built castles with shovels, and families rode sightseeing cars along the river bank slowly. There were also tourists watching videos of Siberian tigers living in the wild on their mobile phones.
This 1.7-kilometer-long riverfront set a record of 3.65 million visitors in the summer of 2025. "We use natural ecology as the basis to implant diverse business formats such as culture, leisure, and consumption." said Wang Rundong, general director of Jilin Zhongqing Tourism Culture Development Co., Ltd. Si Jinanhe.
