{"id":907692,"date":"2026-09-27T19:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/907692\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T19:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:10:09","slug":"giant-pandas-ping-ping-and-fu-shuang-touch-down-in-the-us-under-new-loan-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/907692\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant pandas Ping Ping and Fu Shuang touch down in the US under new loan deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3351294\/lead-trumps-beijing-visit-china-announces-2-pandas-are-headed-us-zoo?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Two giant pandas<\/a> have arrived in Atlanta to take up residency at the southern US city\u2019s zoo.The pandas, male Ping Ping and female Fu Shuang, left Chengdu in China\u2019s southwest on Sunday, within days of Chinese President Xi Jinping wrapping up his <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/2026-xi-trump-summits?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">three-day state visit<\/a> to the United States.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">During the visit, Xi said the pandas would arrive \u201cin a few days\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Ping Ping and Fu Shuang, whose names mean peace and double blessings, arrived at Atlanta International Airport on a chartered flight, state broadcaster CCTV reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two giant pandas have arrived in Atlanta to take up residency at the southern US city\u2019s zoo.The pandas,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[4131,475762,64,63,37958,3293,475768,512,475764,10343,129267,475767,475765,475763,128,58302,338,475766],"class_list":["post-907692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-international-airport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cctv","tag-chengdu","tag-chengdu-research-base-of-giant-panda-breeding","tag-china","tag-china-wildlife-conservation-association","tag-chinese-president-xi-jinping","tag-international-union-for-conservation-of-nature","tag-lun-lun","tag-ping-ping","tag-san-diego-zoo","tag-science","tag-sichuan-province","tag-wildlife","tag-zoo-atlanta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}