Hong Kong's Ocean Park and Chinese mainland's Wolong Nature
Reserve Administration have finalized arrangements to send two new
giant pandas to Hong Kong, a government press release said
Monday.
Secretary for Home Affairs Patrick Ho and the State Forestry
Administration's Zhao Xuemin witnessed the agreement signing in
Beijing Monday. It stipulates that after the pandas arrive, the
park should only present them to the public once they are
physically fit.
The agreement also establishes working relations between the
park and the reserve on panda nursing, breeding and research.
The pandas will arrive in Hong Kong by the end of April, and
there will be a handover ceremony, the press said.
The results of the "Name the Giant Pandas" activity will also be
announced that day and the pair will be officially named.
About13,000 entries have been received.
(Xinhua News Agency April 17, 2007)
