Then the time has come. There is a countdown on the side. The van – with a photo of Fan Xing – arrives at a slow pace. “FAN XING, FAN XING,” the children shout along the crowd barriers. They wave their flags (also with a panda photo) for the last time at the ‘enchanting’ panda. “But I understand that he is going,” said a student. “She has to provide new pandas, because they shouldn’t become extinct, right?”
Mega attention for panda’s departure: ‘She has enchanted us all’
