Six months after Washington, D.C.’s National Zoo said goodbye to Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, it’s preparing to welcome a new pair of giant pandas.
China has agreed to a 10-year lease of the pandas, which will run through April 2034. The zoo will pay the Chinese government $1 million a year to display the pandas. The news was a surprise, given the tense state of affairs between the U.S. and Chinese governments.
