(8 Aug 2024)
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San Diego – 8 August 2024
1. Various of Yun Chuan inside habitat, eating bamboo shoots
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Xie Feng, Ambassador of China to the United States:
“California is known as the Golden State, and Xin Bao, Xin, the first character in the name of Xin Bao is made up of three ‘xin,’ the character for gold. Her name means, ‘a treasure of prosperity and abundance,’ and we hope she will bring you good luck to California, to San Diego.”
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Xie Feng, Ambassador of China to the United States:
“We hope the arrival of the pandas well inject fresh impetus into exchanges between China and California, and help to stabilize the broader bilateral relationship, as well.”
4. Various of Panda Ridge exhibit ribbon cutting ceremony
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Gov. Gavin Newsom, (D) California:
“It is about people to people, not just panda to panda. At the end of the day, what this is really about is all of us. It’s about the fact we share this same short moment in life. As the ambassador was saying, ‘T= his is about exchange. This is about understanding.’ This is about something much deeper, much richer than just the two beautiful pandas we celebrate. It’s about celebrating our common humanity. It’s about celebrating the things that bind us together.”
6. Yun Chuan eating bamboo shoots
7. Pan from media to enclosure and Yun Chuan
8. Close of Yun Chuan eating bamboo
AP video shot by: Eugene Garcia
Production: Vanessa A. Alvarez
STORYLINE:
California’s governor flew in. Throngs of media gathered outside their new habitat, while the city of San Diego warned residents of expected traffic jams for the much-anticipated event: The two giant pandas sent from China to the United States earlier this year were making their public debut.
The San Diego Zoo rolled out the red-carpet Thursday for Yun Chuan and Xin Bao, who were ready for the attention and already dressed in black-and-white attire. The two young bears have been acclimating to their new “Panda Ridge” habitat since arriving at the Zoo in June, the first pandas that have entered the United States in two decades.
The Chinese government has loaned pandas to zoos around the world for decades in a practice called “panda diplomacy.” These fuzzy ambassadors have long been a symbol of the U.S.-China friendship since Beijing gifted a pair of pandas to the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., in 1972.
China stopped renewing panda loans to U.S. zoos in recent years as relations have soured, making the arrival of San Diego Zoo’s newest residents a big relief to panda fanatics. San Diego’s previous pandas left in 2018 and 2019.
Only four other giant pandas currently reside in the United States, all at the zoo in Atlanta. However, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo will receive a new pair of pandas by the end of the year after its last bears returned to China last November.
The opening ceremony included dancing, music, and remarks from Governor Gavin Newsom, Chinese ambassador Xie Feng, and other local officials.
“This is about something much deeper, much richer, than just the two beautiful pandas we celebrate,” Newsom said. “It’s about celebrating our common humanity.”
Newsom proclaimed Aug. 8 as California Panda Day.
Ambassador Feng said he met someone on his flight who traveled all the way from Washington D.C. to see Yun Chuan and Xin Bao and highlighted the excitement for their arrival.
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