Four-year-old Yun Chuan, a male panda, and Xin Bao, a female panda who's turning four in July, departed from Bifengxia Giant Panda Base, in China's Sichuan province on Wednesday. The pair will reside at the San Diego Zoo for the next 10 years, according to a press release from the zoo. The Chinese team will spend about three months in San Diego to help the pandas settle in, state media China Daily said. Yun Chua, the male panda, is the son of Zhen Zhen, who was born at San Diego Zoo in 2007. The zoo has not had residing pandas since 2019, after a 27-year-old female giant panda, Bai Yun, and her 6-year-old son, Xiao Liwu, returned to China.

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Persons: Yun Chuan, Xin Bao, Todd Gloria, I'm, Paul Baribault, Huang Shan, Yun Chua, Zhen Zhen, Bai Yun, Xiao Liwu Organizations: San Diego Zoo, San Diego, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, NBC News Locations: China, San Diego, U.S, Beijing, China's Sichuan, San, United States