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Chengdu pandas are praised Highly at the "Science News! Asia -The Power of Asia, The Power of Science" Exhibition in Japan

"Giant Pandas are really lovely!""How I dream of going to Chengdu for visiting the giant pandas’ hometown." …… Following the Japanese giant pandas mania inspired by "2006 China Chengdu •Global Pandas• Hakkas Journey", giant pandas become once again the focus of public for representative of diverse ecosystem and science at the "Science News! Asia -The Power of Asia, The Power of Science" Exhibition at National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo. At this display, by a combination of pictures, captions, and sound, Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding display excites Japanese pandas fans’ and major media’s strong desire of visiting Chengdu, hometown of pandas.

Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding is Invited to Tokyo

As the largest science museum in Japan, National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo is to hold a grand Exhibition "Science News! Asia -The Power of Asia, The Power of Science", and Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding is invited on purpose to display the accomplishments it has achieved as one of the organizers. Doctor Yamagutimika, a medical doctor of National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, said that “Chengdu is the global academic center of researches on giant pandas breeding and preservation of its inheritance, it is also a top attraction for sightseeing. We Japanese love giant pandas very much, and we take great pleasure in inviting Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding to act as one of the Exhibition organizers, in hopes that it will introduce the circumstances endangered giant pandas are confronted with and the efforts Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding has made and achievements it has attained.” As is introduced, the focuses of "Science News! Asia -The Power of Asia, The Power of Science" Exhibition consist in attaching importance to Asian development, environmental issues and Asian culture, introducing what is going on with different countries, regions and the major research institutes in regard to giant pandas.
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Japanese Pandas Fans Want to Visit Giant Pandas at Chengdu

On the picture here two giant are playing happily with each other while research and development personnel are busy conducting artificial insemination for a female giant panda on the screen over there …… The workshops of Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding attracted thousands of people to rush to watch pandas yesterday. As the reporter noticed, the exhibition workshops for Chengdu Pandas takes up a coverage of about 50 square meter, and is guided by pandas posters along the entrance gate to the exhibition workshops. Except for publicity materials for Chengdu, hometown of giant pandas, five ad hoc videos are employed to tell visitors respectively about the state of extinction pandas are faced with, the situation pandas live in Chengdu, artificial insemination for pandas conducted by Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, and so on. Visitors of different countries to this exhibition zone came in an endless stream. Vincent Blech, a visitor from France, says,“pandas are really lovely. And countless people all over the world love pandas,but Chengdu, the hometown of pandas, is extremely great.” As devoted pandas fans, Yamagutimika tells the reporter that it took her as much as 6 months to prepare for this Exhibition, and the exhibition for Chengdu giant pandas is the integral part. And with an effort to perfect the equipment and decorations of the exhibition workshops, she and her colleagues worked hard without any rest two days prior to the opening of the Exhibition. As she put it, “we conclude that our great pains deserve it when we notice that a lot of people are waiting in a long queue for visit pandas before the exhibition for Chengdu giant pandas on the first day of the Exhibition.”

A family of four at the exhibition workshops for Chengdu giant pandas caught the eyes of the reporter. “My son is very happy at the sight of giant pandas at the zoo, so we take him to the exhibition workshops to gain further understanding of giant pandas.” As this family like pandas, Tokunagayoshihiro only know the fact that pandas are from China. On learning that Chengdu is the hometown of giant pandas, he said to the reporter excitedly, “There are so many giant pandas in Chengdu,and we will take the chances of visiting Chengdu, hometown of giant pandas.”

Japanese Media Focuses on Giant Pandas

Not only is the exhibition for Chengdu giant pandas favored by the visitors, but it also arouses the attention of local media. NTV, priding itself on the largest coverage rate and the highest audience rating in Japan, conducted interviews with Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding and Chengdu Foreign Cultural Communication Association for reporting the exhibition workshops of pandas yesterday. “Giant pandas, endangered animals, are loved by the people all over the world. This exhibition is expected to urge people to focus on the preservation of giant pandas and their breeding, and let many more friends gain an understanding of Chengdu, the hometown of giant pandas.” The delegation for Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding says, “The lovely panda is the messenger to promote the friendship between China and Japan.

As the hometown of giant pandas, Chengdu is a city of pleasant residence with a combination of natural scenery and cultural traditions, and it is also the best scenic-tourist city in China.” Kobayashihirokazi, the NTV reporter said, “Pandas are very popular among Japanese. And we often broadcasting some programs concerning pandas, resulting in high audience rating.” Meanwhile the NTV reporter indicates that Chengdu has accomplished many influential and meaningful activities regarding foreign friendly communications by pandas, and that NTV will keep a close eye on or participate in relevant communication activities concerning pandas.