Who’s that panda? Microchip can answer
Giant panda fan Wan Yongqing, a photographer from Beijing, visits Sichuan province frequently to photograph the bears.
But Wan feels it’s a shame he cannot tell one panda from another. “All of them look the same with their black and white colors,” he said.
His sentiment is shared by many keepers in Sichuan, home to more than 80 percent of the world’s pandas.
“A keeper is familiar with the panda he or she attends. But it is very likely he or she cannot distinguish other pandas,” said Wang Chengdong, head of the animal hospital at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Sichuan’s Wenchuan county.
Keepers’ embarrassment can now be mitigated thanks to a microchip the center is inserting under the skin of panda cubs.
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Five provincial areas — Sichuan, Jiangxi, Henan, Qinghai and the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region — now have new Party secretaries, authorities said on Wednesday.
Three provinces of the areas got their new Party chiefs in a shuffle following the election of Wang Dongming, former Party secretary of Sichuan province, to vicechair of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress.
Peng Qinghua, former Party secretary of Guangxi, replaced Wang in the Sichuan post, while Lu Xinshe, formerly Party secretary of Jiangxi, took over Peng’s former post in Guangxi.
Lu was succeeded by Liu Qi, who also serves as governor of Jiangxi province. Liu, 61, has been governor since September 2016.
Liu has also served as deputy Party secretary and vicegovernor of Jiangxi. He