Merkel: Germany in talks with China on bringing 2 giant pandas to Berlin's zoo

Published October 29, 2015

Chancellor Angela Merkel says Germany has opened talks with China aimed at bringing two giant pandas to Berlin's zoo.

Merkel's announcement followed a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing on Thursday. She didn't specify when the pandas might arrive but said: "This is a very special piece of China that will please a lot of people in Germany."

The giant panda is unique to China and pandas are regularly sent abroad as a sign of warm diplomatic relations or to mark breakthroughs in ties.

Berlin's last panda, Bao Bao, was sent in 1980 as a gift from then-Chinese leader Hua Guofeng to West Germany's chancellor, Helmut Schmidt. Bao Bao died in 2012.

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