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According to Kyodo News on February 21, the "Adventure World" in Shirahama Town, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, held a farewell event on the same day for the giant panda "Yongming" and twin daughters "Sakurahama" and "Momohama" who will return to China on the 22nd, attracting a large number of Japanese people to participate. According to the plan, "Yongming" and other three giant pandas will leave from Kansai Airport on the night of the 22nd local time in Japan to return home.
The father and daughter of the giant panda "Yongming" in Japan returned to China tonight
As of December 2022, the giant panda "Yongming" is 30 years old and has bred 16 giant panda cubs since he came to Japan in 1994.
Kyodo News reported that "Yongming" returned to China to conduct research on the protection and breeding of pandas, while "Sakurahama" and "Momohama" were to find mates. After returning to China, all three giant pandas will live in the "Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base" in Sichuan Province.
It is reported that "Yongming" was born in Beijing Zoo in 1992 and came to Japan in 1994 for Sino-Japanese cooperative breeding research. "Yongming" and the giant panda "Meimei", who died in 2008, gave birth to 6 children, and later had 10 children with the giant panda "Lianghama", and was the father of 16 pandas.
On the 21st, "Adventure World", a leisure park in Shirahama Town, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, held a farewell ceremony for the father and daughter of "Nagamye" who are about to return to Japan. That day was also the last time the "father-daughter stall" met with local tourists.
The ceremony showed a recording of the growth of three giant pandas, and both staff and visitors expressed their gratitude and reluctance.
Kyodo News said that after "Yongming" and their twin daughters leave, there will be only 4 female pandas left in "Adventure World". Koji Imazu, the director of the park, said that he hopes to continue to cooperate with China in research in the future.
Over the years, under the care and care of local zoos in Japan, Sino-Japanese wildlife protection institutions, giant panda lovers and all walks of life in the two countries, the giant panda family in Japan has grown up healthy and thriving, bringing infinite joy and good memories to everyone. As a national treasure of China, the adorable "black and white elves" have widely transmitted friendship and goodwill in Japanese society, connecting the hearts and minds of the people of both countries.
"Xiangxiang" brought 400 million US dollars in economic benefits in three and a half years
And just last night (21st), the Chinese giant panda "Xiangxiang", who has lived in Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, Japan for more than 5 years, returned to China on the 21st, which attracted widespread attention.
According to Nikkei Asia, "Xiangxiang" has boosted the Japanese economy. Katsuhiro Miyamoto, an emeritus professor of economics at Kansai University, estimates that in the first three and a half years of Kaka's life alone, it brought in economic benefits of 53.9 billion yen ($402 million).
It is reported that "Xiangxiang" was born in June 2017 in Ueno Zoo, and his parents were "Bili" and "Fairy" of the giant panda in Japan.
Two days later, four Chinese giant pandas returned to China from Japan. It seems that there is a collective "evacuation fever from Japan" of Chinese pandas, but in fact, all this is carried out as scheduled in accordance with the "lease panda agreement" of the Chinese and Japanese governments.
First of all, it should be mentioned that the appearance of the Chinese giant panda in Japan was one of the fruits of the normalization of Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations in 1972. As we all know, after twists and turns, under the foresight and determination of the leaders of China and Japan at the time, the two countries resumed the normalization of diplomatic relations in the autumn of 1972. Subsequently, the Japanese government decided to give China a Japanese brand - cherry blossoms, and the Chinese government decided to give Japan a Chinese national treasure - giant pandas. Since then, along with policy adjustments, the Chinese government has repeatedly leased giant pandas to Japan, which have been well received by people all over Japan. In this sense, the appearance of Chinese giant pandas on Japanese soil shoulders the important task of "people-to-people diplomacy" and also opens the unique "panda diplomacy" between China and Japan.
Secondly, it should be mentioned that China and Japan also have "discordant voices" in the process of leasing pandas. During his tenure, the late Japanese right-wing politician and former governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara, raised various fallacies such as the high cost of the lease, and adopted a negative attitude towards continuing to lease Chinese giant pandas. However, both the citizens of Tokyo and Japan have adopted "zero tolerance" for Shintaro Ishihara. Through various means and campaigns, they called on the Japanese government and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to continue to petition China for the rental of giant pandas. This public opinion directly affected Shintaro Ishihara's votes, and Shintaro Ishihara had to change his attitude and send a vice governor to visit China to discuss the leasing of giant pandas. It was on the basis of fully considering the public opinion in Japan that the Chinese government agreed to continue to lease giant pandas from Japan. In this sense, when Sino-Japanese relations were at a low ebb, giant pandas became a manifestation of "doing something".
Thirdly, it should be mentioned that China's leasing of giant pandas to Japan, and the subsequent waves of "panda fever", coupled with the recent scene of Japanese people "tearing farewell to giant pandas", all make people see that China's leasing of giant pandas to Japan far exceeds the level of "animal appreciation", and the various extensions derived from it are bound to have a positive impact on future Sino-Japanese relations.
In the process of the development of China-Japan relations, it is necessary to have the spirit of responsibility and make a difference, which is the inspiration given to people by the current "panda fever". This spirit of responsibility means not to be "afraid" of the difficulties of Sino-Japanese relations and not to be "rigid" by the twists and turns of Sino-Japanese relations, but to always adhere to the trend of Sino-Japanese people-to-people friendship and persist in working hard to win the hearts and minds of the Japanese people. China's loan of giant pandas cannot solve many problems in Sino-Japanese relations that have been unresolved for a long time, but it can play a role in the emotional relief of "drizzle and silent" in the hearts of the Japanese people.
Make a difference to make China-Japan relations full of opportunities for a better turn; If we do nothing, we can only watch the Japanese people's favorability towards China decline. Therefore, to change the Japanese people's favorability towards China, giant pandas have contributed a lot.
Source | Yangcheng Evening News, Yangcheng Pai Comprehensive CCTV News Client, China News Network, The Paper, Japan Overseas Chinese News, etc
Responsible Editor | Wu Fang
Editor: Wu Fang
Source: Yangcheng Evening News Yangcheng Pai Synthesis