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- Hong Kong is receiving two giant pandas, a gift from Beijing, but they will need time to adapt before Ocean Park visitors can see them
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“We are thrilled that we are going to have these two new pandas in Ocean Park,” the attraction’s chairman, Paulo Pong Kin-yee, told the Post.
He said the park was working closely with Sichuan province authorities and Hong Kong’s Culture, Sports, and Tourism Bureau and the pandas were expected “in the next few months”.
Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu will lead a delegation including his wife Janet Lee Lam Lai-sim, Pong, tourism minister Kevin Yeung Yun-hung and Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation officials to the Dujiangyan Base of the China Conservation and Research Centre in Sichuan on Sunday to discuss the arrangements for the new pandas.
The pandas are Beijing’s gifts to Hong Kong to celebrate the 27th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to Chinese sovereignty.
This will be the third pair presented by Beijing to the city, after An An and Jia Jia in 1999, and Ying Ying and Le Le in 2007.
