New panda pair sent to Macao

A brief farewell ceremony was held on Thursday for the second pair of giant pandas presented by the central government to the Macao Special Administrative Region.

After the ceremony at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan province, Ya Lin, a seven-year-old male panda, and Shu Rong, an eight-year-old female, headed for Shuangliu International Airport in Chengdu.

The left on a flight at 2 pm and landed in Macao about two hours later.