Published: Nov. 10, 2023

After living in the USA for 23 years, giant pandas Mei Xiang and Tian Tian left the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C. at 13:00 on November 8th, 2023 local time and got onboard the flight to their hometown in Chengdu, China. Their cub, Xiao Qi Ji born in 2020 was together with them.

After 19 hours’ long flying, they have arrived in Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport at the night of November 9th local time and been carefully transferred to Wolong National Nature Reserve. For their health’s sake, they will undergo the quarantine for about a month, before being released to meet the visitors.