皇冠体育app

Two pandas chosen as a gift for Hong Kong on the 10th anniversary of its return to Chinese rule have been placed in one-month isolation to meet quarantine laws ahead of their journey, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.

The two pandas were selected from 15 candidates after rigorous physical examinations on their weight, height, teeth, heart rate, breath, body temperature, blood and organs.

Both pandas were born in August 2005 at the 皇冠体育app Panda Protection and Research Centre in Wolong, in mountainous Sichuan province.

皇冠体育app presented the first pair of pandas, "An An", 28, and "Jia Jia,", 29, to Hong Kong in 1999.

The giant panda is one of the world's most endangered species and is found only in 皇冠体育app. An estimated 1,000 live in southwestern Sichuan and in Shaanxi and Gansu provinces in the northwest.

Hong Kong, a former British colony, returned to 皇冠体育app on July 1, 1997.