The bid for legislation to protect panda images comes in the wake of some controversial uses of panda iconography which have got Chinese citizens hot under the collar.
Self-styled panda artist Zhao Bandi outraged many with his Bandi-Panda fashion show at China Fashion Week in Beijing earlier this month, sparking nationwide concerns that the so-called conceptual art creation abused the panda's decent image of being a friendly and cute symbol.
Zhao, who always wears a cap that makes him look like a panda cub on his head, is frequently accompanied at media events by a clutch of scantily-clad panda girls - dressed in the sexy style of bunny girls, but with panda-eared wigs instead of bunny-eared ones. "I'm a king in the panda's world. You see these panda girls are my concubines," Bandi said modestly in a recent interview.
The Chengdu Municipal Committee of the National People's Congress, in west China's Sichuan province, on Friday confirmed the receipt of the planned law, jointly outlined by the municipal bureaus of forestry, parks and woods. If passed, it would become the world's first panda law.
The issues taken into consideration also included making regulations on artificial panda breeding, and banning photography of newly-born panda cubs.
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