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Royal enclosure: Bing Xing and Huz Zui Ba.

Two giant pandas were welcomed like heads of State when they arrived in Spain from China to begin a new life in an air-conditioned pagoda and custom-built garden at the Madrid zoo. Seven-year-old male Bing Xing and three-year-old female Huz Zui Ba were whisked through an area usually reserved for presidents and diplomats at Madrid airport before heading to the zoo in an air-conditioned truck, escorted by paramilitary police. The pandas, which risk extinction in their nativ e mountains and bamboo forests, are on loan to Spain as a goodwill gesture by the Chinese government. It is hoped they will breed. The shy creatures are expected to draw tens of thousands of extra visitors to Madrid zoo.

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