Wu Wen and Xing Ya, two Chinese giant pandas arrived on Wednesday evening at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam for a 15-year stay in a Dutch zoo.

 

当地时间周三晚，两只大熊猫Wu Wen和Xing Ya抵达阿姆斯特丹史基浦机场，这两只熊猫将在荷兰某动物园生活15年。
 

 

The KLM special cargo¹ flight transporting the pandas landed at around 19:30 local time. When the cages were unloaded from the plane, hundreds of people watching the live broadcast on a big screen in a nearby hall erupted into applause.

 

During their debut² at the hall shortly after a sanitary³ check, both Wu Wen (Beautiful Powerful Cloud, the female panda) and Xing Ya (Elegant Star, male) made tentative steps then strolled in rounds in their tailor-made cages, saluting⁴ crowds of camera as if with somewhat curiosity.

 

The two three-and-half-year-old giant pandas moved in an agile⁵ way that does not match their weight of over 100 kilograms. The bamboo leaves prepared by their hometown keepers in their cages for the 9-hour trip were almost half consumed. 

 

"It's a small step for Wu Wen and Xing Ya, but a big step for the history of Sino-Dutch relations," said Wu Ken⁶, Chinese ambassador to the Netherlands.

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