Staff members convey a transport cage containing Ding Ding, the female panda born in 2017, to a lorry at the Bifengxia base of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Ya’an, Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, yesterday. Chinese researchers held a send-off ceremony for a pair of giant pandas, Ruyi and Ding Ding, who were to depart for Moscow yesterday for a 15-year collaborative research. Xinhua |