[1][2] His research works on Giant panda, White-headed langur and Chinese white dolphin in the last 36 years are internationally recognized contributions.

[3][4] Pan had authored and co-authored 40-50 treatises published on various domestic and international journals including National Geographic and Nature and he is renowned for his academic achievements on researching the 3 near-extinct contemporary species.

In the book The White Dolphins of Qinzhou (欽州的白海豚) Pan and his co-authors unveiled that Chinese white dolphin appeared in Beibu Gulf only from 6000 years ago and that in the Beibu Gulf population is preserved an ancient and rare genotype that is so far never found in populations in other territorial waters.

When Pan went into the Nongguan Mountains he noticed there the sustenance environment was almost totally devastated and that “human was suffering more miserably than the langurs there”.

In view of which he suggested “the core issue of nature conservation in Nongguan Mountains is to improve the living conditions of the people there.