# @reuters on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CzZL8-WxSH7
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/9795025-reuters-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-11-08T17:32:31.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Reuters (@Reuters) — https://gondola.cc/Reuters

## Caption

Giant pandas Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and Xiao Qi depart Washington D.C.’s National Zoo to return to China.
 
Mei Xiang and Tian Tian came to the zoo in 2000 under a cooperative research and breeding agreement with the China Wildlife Conservation Association. The pandas were initially meant to stay 10 years, but the agreement has been renewed three times since 2010.
 
The zoo’s giant panda program began in 1972, when Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai donated two pandas to the United States soon after President Richard Nixon’s historic visit to China that year.
 
#Panda #GiantPandas #MeiXiang #TianTian #XiaoQiJi #WashingtonZoo #SmithsonianNationalZoo #Reuters #News #Animals

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washingtonzoo, panda, smithsoniannationalzoo, giantpandas, animals, tiantian, meixiang, xiaoqiji, news, reuters

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