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Everyone makes their efforts to welcome the 2010 World Expo.so did the giant pandas. The pandas were all born in the Ya'an Bifeng Gorge Breeding Base of mandarin Chinese Sichuan after the deadly Wenchuan earthquake on May 12, 2008, and brought up in groups of three or four, Li said. They are almost in the same age of 1years old. Cause the number similar to the year of 2010, the workers chose the 10 as the total number of the pandas. As mandarin Chinese culture ,they wish the number ten would be a lucky number!As planned ten giant pandas will head for Shanghai, host city of the 2010 World Expo, Tuesday on a chartered plane for a year-long display, said an expert with the China Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center.
What's more, the pandas will go on display in the Shanghai Zoo in the first half of 2010 and on display in the Shanghai Wildlife Zoo in the second half, said the workman.Health checks showed that the pandas are in good health and ready for the coming flight, Li said
We may rest assurance that the considerable workers with the center will transfer the pandas, six females and four males, into cages at 7:20 a.m. Tuesday, and drive them to the Shuangliu International Airport in mandarin Chinese Chengdu, capital of southwest mandarin Chinese Sichuan Province, said Li Guo, a senior researcher with the center.But in order to enhance the intimacy between them, workers have allowed them to live together about 20 days before their departure, he said. "They've had a happy time together."
Do you know why the workers chose the one year's panda? Because they are in the naughty age, will bring much pleasure to the visitors.Ruan Deci, who adopted "Olympics", one of the ten pandas, said she flew to Shanghai several days ago to check the panda's new home. "I am confident that the pandas will start a wonderful life there," she said. The zoos have built new or renovated existing exhibition areas and established bamboo supply bases to ensure sufficient food for the pandas, said Cai Youming, deputy head of the mandarin Chinese Shanghai municipal forestry bureau.China has built 62 giant panda nature reserves for that giant pandas are among the world's most endangered animals.There are about 1,600 giant pandas living in China's wild, mostly in Sichuan and the northwestern provinces of Shaanxi and Gansu.
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