Two giant pandas, Ji Nian and Fu Jiang, made their debuts at Beijing Zoo on Monday as China celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Ji Nian, aged six, and Fu Jiang, aged three, both male pandas, were born in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, the hometown of pandas.
They have gone through a month-long quarantine to ensure their health and safety before being unveiled to eager visitors celebrating the holiday with a trip to the zoo.
To mark the festive occasion, zookeepers prepared special mooncakes for the pandas, adding a sweet touch of celebration to their first public appearance in the capital.
Two giant pandas in Beijing zoo meet public on Mid-Autumn Festival
Two giant pandas in Beijing zoo meet public on Mid-Autumn Festival
China and Canada should work together to promote the stable, healthy and sustainable development of bilateral economic and trade relations, Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng said in Beijing on Friday.
He, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks while attending the Canada-China Trade and Investment Banquet together with the visiting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Speaking at the event, He said that under the strategic guidance of the important consensus reached by their leaders, China and Canada should adhere to the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, win-win cooperation, and mutual success, and jointly promote the stable, healthy, and sustainable development of bilateral economic and trade relations.
China is steadfastly expanding high-standard opening up, continuously developing new quality productive forces, and is willing to work with countries around the world, including Canada, to create new prospects for cooperation, said He.
Carney noted at the banquet that China is Canada's second-largest trading partner and said Canada looks forward to strengthening high-level exchanges with China, making full use of dialogue mechanisms in areas such as the economy and trade, and deepening cooperation in trade, agriculture, energy and other fields.
Carney arrived in Beijing on Wednesday to begin a four-day official visit to China, marking the first trip to the country by a Canadian prime minister in eight years.
China, Canada should work together for stable, healthy, sustainable economic ties: Vice Premier
