Panda cub makes public debut

A panda cup, born of a captive giant panda at a zoo in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, met the public for the first time on Friday.

The giant panda, named Haoqi, gave birth to a cub on June 28 at the Chongqing Zoo after she had succeeded in mating with a male panda in the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Chengdu in late February.

A preliminary check indicates that the cub is female. It has been nursed by its mother Haoqi, with assistance from the zoo staff.The zoo began to raise giant pandas in the 1960s and bred giant panda cubs in the 1980s. So far, a total of 32 litters of giant pandas have been born at the zoo.