over a year after leaving the facility to return to China. AFP via Getty Images “Bao Li and Qing Bao have already won the hearts of our staff and volunteers, and we are excited to welcome panda ...

The 32-year-old bikes to the panda base every morning to see Hua Hua and film the celebrity bear for his 10,000 ... the pair were scheduled to return to China. Chinese social media was awash ...

with the stipulation that any cubs they birth will move to China by age 4 The panda pair arrived in the nation’s capital back in October and have spent the last few months getting acclimated to ...

They replaced Mei Xiang, Tian Tian, and their cub, Xiao Qi Ji, who returned to China ... panda diplomacy. A few months later, though, the National Zoo announced pandas would return.

Return to the National Zoo The Panda House at the National Zoo has been empty for more than a year after Tian Tian, Mei Xiang and Xiao Qi Ji were sent back to China in November 2023 when a ...

Panda fan culture once flourished in China. But Beijing is tightening control ... like campaigning for the return of a scrappy panda from Memphis Zoo in 2023. The National Zoo has been a frequent ...

From the gates of the famed Chengdu Panda Base, fans run to the leafy “villa” of its celebrity resident: Hua Hua, China’s most ... Hua and film the celebrity bear for his 10,000 followers ...

One analysis from 2018 suggested that the financial benefit of panda conservation in China was 10 to 27 times higher than the cost. “Because of the time and effort and resources that have gone ...

Pandas are considered China’s unofficial national mascot. The country’s giant panda loan program with overseas zoos has long been seen as a tool of Beijing’s soft-power diplomacy.