Cute panda cubs caught on camera having fun with basket

A heartwarming video released recently shows giant panda cubs playing with a small bamboo basket at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in southwest China's Sichuan Province.

The footage was filmed at the base's Moonlight Delivery House for Giant Pandas on January 30, and shows the playfulness of the pandas as they explored the basket inside and out.

The basket has been provided to the pandas as part of a larger enrichment program aimed at fostering natural behaviors, preventing repetitive actions, and meeting the pandas' physiological and psychological needs.

The Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding is a globally recognized institution dedicated to the conservation of giant pandas, red pandas, and other endangered species native to China.

The base has become a major tourist destination, celebrated for its breeding programs, educational outreach, and efforts to protect these iconic animals.

The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, weakened 18 pips to 6.9025 against the U.S. dollar Friday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System.

In China's spot foreign exchange market, the yuan is allowed to rise or fall by 2 percent from the central parity rate each trading day.

The central parity rate of the yuan against the U.S. dollar is based on a weighted average of prices offered by market makers before the opening of the interbank market each business day.