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BEIJING, Sept. 26 (Xinhuanet) -- China's First Lady Peng Liyuan has visited the US National Zoo in Washington, accompanied by her American counterpart Michelle Obama. The two first ladies named the zoo's panda cub.
Panda Diplomacy at the National Zoo in Washington, as Chinese First Lady Peng Liyuan and her American counterpart Michelle Obama stopped by to name the Zoo's panda cub, Bei Bei-meaning "precious treasure." The cub was born over the summer as part of a Chinese program that lends Giant Pandas to international zoos.
Panda Diplomacy with the US goes back to the 1970s when then-U.S. First Lady Pat Nixon visited the Panda house at the Beijing Zoo.
Pandas at the National Zoo in Washington are a perennial favourite with grown-ups and of course, children.
The kids on hand to greet the first ladies are students at a Washington DC Chinese language immersion school called Yu Ying.
Earlier in the day the Obama administration announced the "One Million Strong" initiative- aiming to increase culture ties between the US and China by teaching one million U.S. school children to speak Mandarin by the year 2020.
(Source: CNTV.cn)
