Giant panda pair leave for Hong Kong

The new pandas, who are used to eating bamboo from Sichuan, need to change their diet and they have been provided with bamboo from Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province.

Ocean Park Hong Kong has said it transported bamboo from Guangdong to Sichuan so that the pandas could get used to the type of bamboo they will eat after arriving in Hong Kong.

Giant pandas will also be fed bamboo from Sichuan while in the transition period in Hong Kong. At certain times of the year giant pandas may have poor appetites, so fresh bamboo leaves would be shipped directly from Sichuan to Hong Kong.

The central government gifted Hong Kong with its first pair of giant pandas in 1999, however, both pandas passed away in 2016 and 2022 at the ages of 38 and 35, respectively. Jia Jia, which died at 38 in 2016, was the world's longest-living captive giant panda.

The central government gifted a second pair in 2007 and they had recently given birth to twin panda cubs.