But for tourists like me, pandas are its top attraction.

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But my connection with pandas goes back to my days on a TV show in the mid-1980s, when I was the first western TV reporter permitted to film a special unit caring for pandas rescued from starvation in the wild.

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By that time, the panda no longer needed its mother for food.

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Chinese scientists recently had a chance to study a wild female panda with a newborn baby.

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It was time for her to have a new baby, and it was also time for the young panda to be independent.

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My ambassadorial duties will include introducing British visitors to the 120-plus pandas at Chengdu and others at a research in the misty mountains of Bifengxia.

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So it was a great honour to be invited backstage at the not-for-profit panda base, where ticket money helps pay for research.

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Then, after two and a half years, the mother drove the young panda away.

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When/if it cried, she rocked it back and forth and gave it little comforting pats, the mother continued to care for the young panda for more than two years.

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