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China provides two pandas to Russia's Moscow Zoo for fifteen-year period

Commitment Year•2019Country of Activity•RussiaDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•RussiaSector•Other Social Infrastructure And ServicesFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Feb 28, 2019
Start (actual)
Apr 29, 2019

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The project donated two pandas to the Moscow Zoo in Moscow, Russia. More detailed locational information can be found at https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1785922

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

  • Unspecified Chinese Government Institution

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

  • Government of Russia

Implementing agencies

NGO/CSO/Foundations

  • China Wildlife Conservation Association

Loan desecription

China provides two pandas to Russia's Moscow Zoo for fifteen-year period

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Project narrative

On February 28, 2019, the China Wildlife Conservation Association signed an agreement with the Moscow Zoo to send two giant pandas to Russia for a fifteen-year period with the goal of contributing to research surrounding panda reproduction. The two pandas, named Ru Yi and Ding Ding, departed from Chengdu, the capital of China's Sichuan Province, on April 29, 2019, and arrived at the Moscow Zoo on the same day. The leaders of the two countries visited the pandas on June 5th, 2019. On January 21, 2020, the Chinese ambassador visited Moscow Zoo and bring the pandas new year gifts. This is the second time a pair of giant pandas were sent from Sichuan Province to Moscow; a pair of pandas were also sent in 1957.