Pandas are China's ambassadors（大使） and are loved by many people around the world. In February，pandas including Xiang Xiang and Yong Ming came back home. Before this，they were on loan to Japan.
Since the early 1980s，China has stopped giving away pandas as gifts because of their falling numbers. In the 1990s，China started 10﹣year loans of pandas to other countries. Today about 60 pandas are living abroad.
Making the pandas feel at home，this may lead you the question：How do overseas（海外的） zoo s make sure they have what the pandas need to be comfortable？
Wei Rongping，the head of the Wolong Panda Base in Sichuan says the overseas zoos need to meet several conditions. For example，there must be a healthy and safe environment for pandas to live in. In 2017，to welcome pandas Xing Ya and Wu Wen，the zoo in the Kingdom of the Netherlands built a Chinese﹣style panda house. It offers a clinic（诊所），a cold bamboo keeping room and a nursery when pandas are ready to have babies.
Also，the zoo must give pandas enough food because a panda may eat 12 to 38 kilograms of bamboo in a day，which means they spend at least 12 hours eating each day. Pandas Si Hai and Jing Jing traveled to Qatar in 2022. Every week，the park buys 1，000 kg of fresh bamboo from their hometown，Sichuan. Keepers there also learn the Sichuan dialect（方言） to better talk to the pandas.
