No country's national treasure can be compared with our country's panda "ambassadors", who are not only loved in China, but also "fragrant" when they go abroad.
But the delicacy of the baby panda also makes many countries "out of reach", and Canada took the lead in "raising its hand and surrendering".
At the beginning of 2022, Canada announced that it would send the "Ershun" and "Damao" who lived in Canada back to their hometown in advance, and according to the agreement between the two sides, "Ershun" and "Damao" should have returned to China in 2023.
Are giant pandas really so difficult to keep? How much does it cost to feed a baby panda? Why does Canada keep waving its hands and saying that it can't afford to support it?
The national treasure of the giant panda promotion road
In fact, the standard name of the panda at the beginning is cat bear, which means that the face shape is like a cat but like a bear. The giant panda is one of the oldest species in China and has extraordinary political significance as a national treasure.
The earliest giant panda found on the mainland is located in Lufeng, Yunnan, about 8 million years ago, about the late Miocene.
Giant pandas can be called the "successful" in the animal kingdom, from birth and reproduction to the present, and their contemporaries have been completely extinct, such as the well-known saber-toothed tiger, mammoth, short-faced bear and so on.
And the giant panda can survive to this day, can not say that this is not a miracle.
Before the giant panda became a national treasure, it can be described as "full of disasters", so it is also "deserved" to be able to "stand out" and become a national treasure of the mainland.
The first time pandas ushered in their disaster was about 3 million years ago, when the earth ushered in a drop in temperature, a large number of plants decreased, and a sharp decrease in food, which put the carnivorous panda in an "embarrassing situation".
So they began to "find another way" and learn to eat some plants "luckily" to avoid the disaster.
Eight or seven thousand years ago, the global warming, people with severe food shortages set their "evil" eyes on pandas. Because giant pandas are not as dangerous as other beasts of prey and are slaughtered, the number of "poor" giant pandas has decreased dramatically.
Pandas that were originally scattered all over The Yunnan-Guichuan River could only be forced to hide in the mountains of Sichuan and other mountains to survive.
Until now, in 1988, the giant panda was officially listed as a national first-class protected animal, and in 1992 it was officially designated as a national treasure, and the giant panda "Zhengda Guangming" of "Hiding in Tibet" opened its "counterattack road".
Diplomacy guru
Panda diplomacy is China's unique diplomatic method, the giant panda as a "diplomat" can be said to have achieved remarkable results, many pandas in foreign countries received state guest treatment, can rent a panda also represents the conclusion of major cooperation between the two sides.
Panda diplomacy can be traced back even earlier. Japan can be described as the biggest "fan" in China, as early as the first year of the Tang Dynasty, that is, in 685 AD, Wu Zetian gave Two Pandas and 70 Panda Skins to Japan.
China earns hundreds of millions of dollars a year by leasing giant pandas alone, but there are still many countries "scrambling" to apply every year.
In 1972, Nixon visited China and visited the Beijing Zoo, when he was hit by baby pandas and expressed his hope to get China's giant pandas.
So the giant pandas Lingling and Xingxing arrived at the Washington Zoo, and for a time there were thousands of people in the alley, triggering the first wave of "panda fever" in the United States.
However, the application is not "smooth sailing", and "Shen Cat" is comparable to the Olympic bid. For example, the Netherlands has applied for 16 years after three prime ministers, and finally borrowed two "black sesame tangyuan" as desired in 2015, and spent 51.16 million yuan to build a panda pavilion with a total area of 9,000 square meters for giant pandas, with a style reference to the Chinese royal industrial design.
But compared with Denmark, it is still a "small witch to see the big witch", and the Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark spent 150 million yuan to design the panda pavilion using Taiji Yin and Yang, and the baby panda could have been described as "going abroad to ascend the throne".
Canada has a hard time saying
Canada has experienced 40 years of "long-distance running", and after going through ups and downs, it has obtained two baby pandas, "Ershun" and "Big Hair".
During this period, I wanted to name the giant panda after Lesman, and Canada's love for giant pandas is "visible".
But "the sky is not the way it goes", the Calgary Zoo, where the giant pandas "Ershun" and "Da Mao" are located, said that they made a very difficult decision to cut the two giant pandas that had been fostered in Canada for ten years and send them back to China with an early end of their trip.
An adult giant panda weighing 120 kilograms needs to eat about 20 kilograms of bamboo every day, and the market price of bamboo is about 15 to 20 yuan per kilogram, so the giant panda spends nearly 150,000 yuan on bamboo alone for a year.
Calgary does not have bamboo, so it used to rely on bamboo transported from other cities to satisfy the panda's "picky stomach".
After the outbreak of the epidemic, there was a shortage of fresh bamboo for giant pandas to eat, and on this basis, the zoo could not make ends meet and could only be forced to "bow" to reality.
Through the joint efforts of many parties, two Brigade Pandas from chengdu giant panda breeding research base and Chongqing Zoo successfully "returned home" by special plane in the early morning of November 29, 2020, which was more than two years earlier than the original planned return time of giant pandas.
Of course, although China and Canada decided to terminate cooperation in advance through friendly consultations, the joy that the giant pandas brought to the chinese and Canadian peoples is "indelible".
Under the "friendly diplomacy" of baby pandas, not only has the cause of giant panda protection received more people's concern and support, but also the exchanges and cooperation in the field of wildlife conservation and the due contribution to the cause of global biodiversity conservation are "priceless".
Finally, I would like to ask you, how many years do you think it takes to raise a baby panda?