Six panda keepers go into the wild in final week

Chengdu - Six people who won a global competition for panda keepers in Southwest China's Sichuan province last month have set off to search for traces of the bears in the wild in their final week as "pambassadors".

The six stood out from 12 candidates in the final run on Sept 29 and won the opportunity to spend a month working as panda keepers in the provincial capital Chengdu.

After three weeks of panda care at the Chengdu Research Base for Giant Panda Breeding, they arrived at Hongkou Nature Reserve in the neighboring Dujiangyan city on Monday for five days of field survey.