This Day, That Year

Item from Nov 10, 1986, in China Daily: Beijing Zoo has successfully bred the world's first second-generation panda, conceived through artificial insemination, an official announced on Saturday.

The universally loved giant panda is the national animal of China.

The animal has been serving as a cultural ambassador for the country, since the start of the so-called "panda diplomacy" in the late 1950s.