The Chinese began celebrating their "Golden Week", which marks the 59th anniversary of the founding of the new China. This national holiday runs from September 29 - October 5, 2008.
At the Xiangiang Wildlife World in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, the pandas have become the tourists favorite attraction in the city. They currently have ten pandas at the zoo, five were recently adopted from the Wolong nature reserve.
Beijing reported that at the Wuhan Zoo in central China, they began feeding its two pandas home-cooked chicken soup twice a month to reduce stress and give them a nutritional boost. The two three year old's, Xi Wang and Wei Wei, were adopted from the Wolong Reserve arrived in June. The pandas were served 2.2 pounds of soup in giant dishes, in addition to their regular diet of bamboo, milk and buns. It was a hit. "They drank it all like they drank their milk. They loved it," reports He Zhihua.
