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Giant pandas Ping Ping and Fu Shuang left Chengdu in south-west China's Sichuan Province today for the United States, marking the start of a 10-year conservation partnership between the two countries. Ping Ping, born on March 17, 2020, is easily recognisable due to its large, dark eye rims. It has…

This photo taken on Sept. 27, 2026 shows a chartered flight carrying a pair of giant pandas, Ping Ping and Fu Shuang, at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The giant panda pair departed for Zoo Atlanta in the U.S. at 2:55 a.m. Sunday, kicking off their…

China’s Xi Jinping announced during his state visit to the U.S. that two new pandas would arrive soon at a zoo in Atlanta...Read More

WASHINGTON — Chinese President Xi Jinping has news for the people of Atlanta: The pandas are coming. Two giant pandas, Ping Ping and Fu Shuang, will arrive at Zoo Atlanta "in a few days", Xi announced at the start of his state visit to the US on Thursday (Sept 24).…

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday that two giant pandas from China will arrive at Zoo Atlanta in the coming days, bolstering a loan program that at one time had lapsed as part of tensions between Beijing and Washington. China and the zoo had said in April that Ping Ping,…

On this International Red Panda Day, the team at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington D.C. really has something to celebrate. Well, technically three somethings.  One female and one male cub were born on May 29. Image: Brooke McDonough/Smithsonian. Three red panda cubs were born earlier this summer at the…

Giant panda Xing Mei is pictured at the zoo of Photosynthesis Valley Tourist Resort in north China's Tianjin Municipality, Aug. 10, 2026. The zoo in the Photosynthesis Valley Tourist Resort celebrated Xing Mei's 15th birthday on Monday. Xing Mei was born in August 2011 at the Chengdu Research Base of…

The second of two red panda cubs born at the Santa Barbara Zoo in California this summer died over the weekend, the zoo said Monday. Another cub born to a red panda named Ruby died this month, the zoo said in a statement. The zoo’s staff found that cub dead…

Giant panda Yuanbao has food during a birthday party at Taipei Zoo in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, June 28, 2026. Taipei Zoo on Sunday celebrated the sixth birthday of Yuanbao, the youngest offspring of a pair of giant pandas presented by the mainland to Taiwan in 2008. (Taipei Zoo/Handout via…

China to send two more pandas to US to strengthen US-China ties China is gearing up to lend two additional giant pandas to the U.S., a step that some believe indicates improving diplomatic ties. China will loan two giant pandas, Ping Ping and Fu Shuang, to Zoo Atlanta under a…