Safari park in Guangzhou presents baby panda to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival

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Safari park in Guangzhou presents baby panda to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival

2024-09-15 01:33 Last Updated At：08:37

To celebrate the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, Chimelong Safari Park in Guangzhou City of Guangdong Province, south China introduced to visitors baby panda Mei Zhu, the daughter of Meng Meng, the oldest sister of the world's only surviving panda triplets, and prepared a series of activities on Friday.

Mei Zhu, aged only 87 days, is in good health and just began teething. But the baby panda always gets a bit cranky after milk feedings, and requires panda keepers to spend around half an hour to calm her down.

"As a young panda, her digestive system is still developing, and excessive activity after feeding can lead to digestive issues. She is quite energetic now. If she found any strangers entering her enclosure and they wanted to, for example, pet her, she would be quite defensive, due to her self-protection instincts," said Chen Siming, a wildlife conservation expert.

Another star panda in the zoo, Guo Qing, also received his present, a pile of mooncake-shaped wowotou (a type of steamed corn bread). Guo Qing was of good appetite, which amused many of his fans.

"I am here just to see her. I drove 38 kilometers just to watch her mischief. She is very famous for that, always causing trouble when her keeper is not around," said a visitor.

The koalas are also welcoming guests. Totaling over 70 koalas in the park, more than 40 of them were presented to visitors by their keepers. The chubby animals constitute a big family of eight generations, with the youngest being 2 years old and the oldest reaching 19, much older than the average lifespan of the species.

"We've sent technicians to Australia to learn how to feed the Koalas, pick up veterinary and health care skills. With our valuable experience gained through years of raising the koalas, we are able to provide them good environment, food, and medical care. As a result, the average lifespan of the troop is getting longer," said a koala keeper.

In addition to these highlights, Chimelong Safari Park is also planning a series of animal enrichment events and sharing stories of the animals with the visitors during the Mid-Autumn Festival vacation.

China continues to foster, strengthen space computing industry

China will continue to foster and strengthen the space computing industry, according to the country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

Space-based computing power refers to deploying computational capabilities in space and using satellite networks to achieve seamless coverage. Compared to traditional land-based data centers, space computing boasts advantages such as real-time on-orbit processing, low-cost energy and wide-area coverage. "Computing satellites can achieve seamless coverage and process data directly on orbit through networks of laser communications. This compresses the data timeliness for scenarios like disaster warnings and resource monitoring from hours to seconds -- a capability land-based computing cannot match," said Xie Lina, deputy director of the Data Center Department, Cloud Computing and Big Data Institute, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology.

The ministry will support relevant departments in actively carrying out forward-looking research on space computing, gradually establish a standard system covering hardware, software, networking, security, and others, and promote the research and development in technologies and products involving satellite-based radiation-resistant chips and inter-satellite laser communication.