Qing Bao and Bao Li will be the first pandas sent to the US capital in over 24 years. Loaded to the National Zoo for a period of 10 years, the fee paid to the China Wildlife Conservation Society is around one million dollars a year, which is spent on conservation efforts across China.

Two giant pandas destined for the Washington zoo arrived in the United States from China on Tuesday, the latest in Beijing's campaign of international "panda diplomacy."

Two giant pandas are expected to arrive in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, continuing a decades-old culture exchange between China and the United States.

Two giant pandas began their journey from China to Washington, DC, on Monday, nearly a year after Chinese authorities took back a previous pair and prompted fears that the National Zoo would never see the much-beloved animals ever again.

A pair of giant pandas left China on Monday for the National Zoo, taking up residence in the nation’s capital weeks before the U.S. presidential election.