Four giant pandas to call high-altitude plateau home

Two 3-year-old female giant pandas will arrive in Xining, Qinghai province, on Wednesday to join two other pandas, completing the first group of the animals to call the high-altitude plateau home.

Qiguo and Yuanman will join the other two from the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding that arrived on Monday to stay for three years in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Wildlife Zoo.

With the approval of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, the zoo signed an agreement with the Chengdu base to borrow the four pandas to be exhibited in the zoo.