Two giant pandas leave for Russia for 15-year research cooperation

A pair of giant pandas, Ding Ding and Ru Yi, will depart from the Ya'an Bifengxia Base of China Conservation and Research Center for Giant Panda (CCRCGP) to Russia on Monday for a 15-year collaborative research. Ru Yi, the male panda born in 2016, and Ding Ding, the female panda born in 2017, are scheduled to board a flight at 13:45 in Chengdu and arrive in Moscow at 22:00 Beijing Time the same day, the panda research base in southwest China's Sichuan Province said.