After a long journey from China, the two pandas Hao Hao, a four-year-old female whose name means ‘Friendly’, and Xing Hui (‘Shining Star’), a male of the same age, joined the park in Hainaut where an area of 5,300 m² was created especially for them. This panda enclosure also includes a 1,750 m² construction right in the middle Pairi Daiza’s Chinese garden. You reach it by entering a bamboo forest, their favourite food. These two giant pandas have been lent to Belgium by China for a period of fifteen years within the framework of an ambitious international programme for the safeguarding and reproduction of giant pandas, of which there are no more than 1,600 left in the wild and 300 in captivity.