China's panda 'couple' ready for the trip

Belgian Ambassador to China Michel Malherbe, left, and Eric Domb, center, chief of the Pairi Daiza zoo feed female panda Hao Hao bamboo, at the Dujiangyan base of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda on Feb 22. A pair of pandas, Xing Hui, the male, and Hao Hao, the female, both four years old, are bound for Belgium's Pairi Daiza zoo, and are set to live there in the next 15 years, the longest time for the rare animals to be sent abroad from China. The pair will live in a 5,300-square meter panda house at Pairi Daiza zoo, located about 60 km from downtown Brussels, capital of Belgium. [Heng Yi/Asianewsphoto]