Celebrations were held for a giant panda cub who turned six months old on Saturday at a Zoo in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality.
The panda cub was born at Chongqing Zoo on June 28 to mother Haoqi. Zookeepers held a public event to mark the adorable cub's half-year milestone, which started as the cuddly cub tried out a slide that didn't seem very attractive to it. Then, the cub turned to play with a mushroom decoration in the venue which was made with crushed ice.
Zookeepers have also prepared carrots and apples for the cub to feast on.
"I think it's really adorable. I come from Shanghai. This is my first time seeing a panda, and I hope it stays healthy," said Hu Shan, a visitor.
Giant panda Haoqi gave birth to the female cub six months ago after she succeeded in mating with a male panda in the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Chengdu City, southwest China's Sichuan Province in late February.
The cub has been nursed by its mother Haoqi, with assistance from zookeepers. It is growing well, now weighing 12 kilograms.
The cub was Haoqi's second delivery. Born at the zoo in 2013, Haoqi gave birth to a pigeon pair of cubs in 2021 at the zoo. The zoo began to raise giant pandas in the 1960s and to breed giant panda cubs in the 1980s. So far, a total of 32 litters of giant pandas have been born at the zoo.
Chongqing Zoo holds celebrations for six-month-old giant panda cub
The Sanya branch of the Peking University (PKU) Hospital of Stomatology based in the tourist resort city of Sanya in south China's tropical Hainan Province -- the country's first national-level regional dental specialty center -- officially opened on Saturday, providing local residents and tourists with access to top-tier dental care without leaving Hainan.
As a key city in the Hainan Free Trade Port and a hub for both tourism and wellness, Sanya has seen rising demand for oral healthcare. Local resources, however, have long been strained.
The newly launched hospital aims to ease the situation. Both its management and medical teams come directly from the main campus of the PKU Hospita of Stomatology in Beijing, ensuring seamless integration and unified standards across diagnoses, treatment, and service quality. The facility comprises of nine specialized buildings, including an emergency outpatient complex and an international medical services building, covering all sub-specialties in dental medicine.
"Since the official start of Hainan Free Trade Port's island-wide special customs operations [on December 18, 2025], the very first zero-tariff items entering the region were advanced dental equipment for our hospital. This enables a wide range of patients in the Hainan region to access the world's latest dental treatment equipment and technology more quickly," said Deng Xuliang, president of the PKU Hospital of Stomatology.
Looking ahead, the main campus of the PKU Hospital of Stomatology will collaborate with medical universities in Hainan to jointly train more specialized professionals for grassroots-level healthcare institutions across the region. Through technical mentorship and integrated training programs, the initiative aims to leverage the policy advantages of the free trade port to build a high-level, comprehensive platform that integrates medical services, education, research, public health, and healthcare management, with particular attention on international patient services and comfort-focused treatment.
"The operation of medical care plus health and wellness programs and of medical care plus tourism projects has jointly contributed to the formation of an internationalized medical care platform in Sanya, which presents a major opportunity for both Sanya and the rest of Hainan, especially as the free trade port enters full operation, making more duty-free medicines and medical devices available locally," said Hu Yulei, director of the Sanya Municipal Health Commission.
Hainan's Sanya opens first national dental specialty center
