In March 1938, WCUU received a request from New York Animals Association, which said, “We hope to get a baby panda, and if we may, a pair of babies the better”. As there was then indirect cooperation between WCUU and New York University in connection with this association, this request was immediately taken seriously.

Dr. Dickinson, biographic professor of WCUU in charge of this affair, wrote an urgent letter to the hunters in the mountains, and soon his wife herself fetched a lively baby panda from the mountain of Guan County (Now Dujiangyan City). They raised it like a pet at their home in West China Dam and gave it a lovely name “Pandora”.

Pandora is the very panda that enjoyed the longest lifetime abroad before 1949. On May 13 1941, Pandora passed away in USA.

However, the Pandora’s story is far from ending. Many years later, the descendants of Pandora were adored as national treasure of China by thousands of foreigners and thus Chinese people’s friendship was conveyed all over the world. Similarly, in more than a century, those Canadians who insisted on their faith, traveled so far and fell in love with Chengdu, were continuing their story with China and destiny with Chengdu.

Now, Canadian Embassy in China, TV Program Production Center of China Radio International, Xinhua Wenxuan Publishing Media Co., Ltd, along with Information Office and Office of Foreign Affairs of the Government, People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries at provincial and municipal levels and Dayi County Government, jointly sponsored an exhibition titled “Chinese Feelings over the Pacific—Old Photos of Chengdu from Canada”. In this exhibition gathering over 500 old pictures taken by Canadian friends, Pandora appeared again in people’s vision.