Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, northeast China - Aug 12, 2017
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1. Various of panda eating bamboo, ice cake
2. Various of tourists looking at panda

3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Pan, Harbin resident (no full name given):
"It is quite special, especially the ice-made birthday cake. I had always thought that it should be made from bamboo."

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4. QR code of WeChat official account set up for pandas
5. Messages left by panda fans on WeChat account
6. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Yu Tengjiao, curator, panda enclosure (ending with shot 7):
"We specially held a star concert for those panda fans traveling from a long distance or those who like pandas, to let them feel the culture at our resort."

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7. Various of tourists looking at panda

Female giant panda Sijia celebrated her 11th birthday last Saturday, one year after she and her playmate Youyou moved to their new home in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

Sijia and Youyou moved to Yabuli last July. About 1,500 visitors joined in Saturday's celebration. Sijia enjoyed a rose-shaped ice cake at the panda enclosure at a ski resort in Yabuli, thousands of kilometers from their home in Sichuan Province.

"It is quite special, especially the ice-made birthday cake. I had always thought that it should be made from bamboo," said Pan, a Harbin resident.

The ski resort also set up a WeChat official account for the giant pandas since Aug 3 and many followers were invited to celebrate Sijia's birthday.

"We specially held a star concert for those panda fans travelling from a long distance or those who like pandas, to let them feel the culture at our resort," said Yu Tengjiao, curator at the panda enclosure.

Pandas were downgraded from "endangered" to "vulnerable" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in September last year, thanks to continued efforts to protect the species by Chinese scientists.

But the number of pandas living in the wild is still fewer than 2,000 and around 400 lived in captivity as of the end of 2013, according to data from China's State Forestry Administration.