Giant pandas are China's ambassadors(大使) and are loved by people around the world. This year, Xiang Xiang, Yong Ming and some other pandas come back home from foreign countries like Japan. From early 1960s, China stopped giving away pandas as gifts because they were getting fewer and fewer. In the 1990s, China started to send pandas to foreign countries again. Today about 60 pandas live abroad.
You may have a question: How do foreign zoos meet the pandas' needs? Wei Rongping, the head of the Wolong Shenshuping panda base(基地), tells CRI Online that foreign zoos have a lot to do to keep giant pandas. For example, there must be a healthy and safe environment(环境) for pandas to live in.
To welcome pandas Xing Ya and Wu Wen, Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen, Netherlands(荷兰雷嫩) builds a Chinese-style panda house named Pandasia. It has a small hospital for sick pandas, a cold room to store bamboo and a nursery(儿童房) room for baby pandas.
Also, a giant panda may eat 12 to 38 kilograms of bamboo in a day. The zoo must give pandas enough food. Pandas Si Hai and Jing Jing traveled to AI Khor Park in Qatar in 2022.Every week, the park buys 1000 kg of fresh bamboo from their hometown, Sichuan. Workers at the park also learn the Sichuan dialect(方言) to better talk to the pandas.