The vehicle carrying giant panda Lang Yue, which just returned to China from a zoo in the Netherlands, arrives at the Ya'an base of China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Ya'an City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Oct. 31, 2026.

 

Giant panda Lang Yue safely arrived in Chengdu, the capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, on Saturday morning, after departing from Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen, the Netherlands.

 

Giant panda Lang Yue, which just returned to China from a zoo in the Netherlands, is pictured at an isolation and quarantine enclosure at the Ya'an base of China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Ya'an City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Oct. 31, 2026.

 

It was then sent to the Ya'an base of China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, where it will be quarantined for at least 30 days.

 

Lang Yue is the second cub born to giant pandas Wu Wen and Xing Ya, who arrived in the Netherlands in 2017. Their first cub, Fan Xing, was born in May 2020 and left for China in September 2023.

 

Edited by Zhang Yuanlin

Source: Xinhua