A pair of giant panda cubs were caught on camera tussling over a shoot of delicious bamboo at the Qinling Four Rare Animals Science Park in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
In the camera footage, giant panda Rong Rong sits contentedly in a corner, munching on bamboo shoots with gusto.
However, the peaceful moment was short-lived as another cub named Ai Le crept closer, observed for a moment, then swiftly snatched a large bamboo shoot segment from Rong Rong. As if oblivious to the theft, Rong Rong continued enjoying the tender tip, while Ai Le lounged nearby, munching away in comfort.
However, as soon as Rong Rong finished eating his remaining shoots, he freed up his paws, stood up, pinned down Ai Le, and swiftly snatched back the large bamboo shoot segment, stuffing it into his mouth for a quick bite. But Ai Le was not about to back down, seizing the shoot right back. Neither of the two panda cubs were willing to yield.
After a brief scuffle, Rong Rong lost his bamboo shoots, but fortunately was left with a piece left in his mouth.
In another instance of adorable panda antics caught on film, an infrared camera captured two wild giant pandas, with one of them trying to eat the camera.
The gnawing incident occurred in a snowy mountain forest in the Chengdu area of the Giant Panda National Park in southwest China's Sichuan Province in February, and was found by workers on Thursday.
The footage shows a wild giant panda strolling leisurely on the snow-covered land, seemingly searching for food. Meanwhile, the other panda curiously sniffs around the infrared camera, opens its mouth wide and attempts to fit the camera inside.
Just then, the panda's companion reaches over and pushes down its head, as if to say, "Stop fooling around."
Adorable pandas wrestle over bamboo shoots in reserve, gnaw on camera in wild
Adorable pandas wrestle over bamboo shoots in reserve, gnaw on camera in wild
China's development has never been a "threat" to anyone but the source of growth advancing common development of all countries, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said at a regular press conference in Beijing on Friday.
Some Western media and think tanks are peddling so-called "China Shock 2.0," saying that "China is achieving fast development in high-tech sectors such as renewable energy and AI and relies on foreign markets to absorb its overcapacity, thus reducing the market share of developed countries and sending more serious shock waves to the global economy compared with the era of traditional manufacture industry," while there are foreign commentators saying that the "China Shock 2.0" argument ignores the genuine innovation occurring within the Chinese industrial ecosystem and that Chinese export is the exact booster of the global economy that is needed in the turbulent period and more indispensable than ever.
Commenting on that, Lin said: "From the world's factory to the world's market and innovation powerhouse, China's development is achieved through strong performance driven by innovation and brings tangible cooperation opportunities and space to the world. High-quality Chinese products represented by the 'old three' of textiles, furniture and home appliances have stabilized the global industrial and supply chain, lowered the living cost of global consumers and eased the inflationary pressure worldwide. China's green production capacity represented by the 'new three' of electric vehicles, batteries and solar panels has bridged the gap between supply and demand in global green development and bolstered the global energy transition and low-carbon development. Moreover, China's high-tech products represented by the 'new new three' of robots, AI and innovative drugs have broken high-tech barriers and monopoly and enabled people in more countries to access affordable new technologies," said the spokesman.
"Openness and cooperation bring about progress and win-win result. China's development has never been a 'threat' to anyone but the source of growth advancing common development of all countries. What really creates 'shocks' to the world has never been the innovation of Chinese companies and efficiency of Chinese industrial capacity, but protectionist moves of setting up barriers, decoupling and severing industrial and supply chains. China will stay committed to high-standard opening up, defend the multilateral trading system and provide more certainty and new impetus to the world economy with its own steady development," said Lin.
China's development never a threat: FM spokesman
