Officials from Edinburgh zoo, were at the Wolong Panda Research Centre, days before the quake hit. To start the process of adopting two breeding pandas to live at Edinburgh zoo. The zoo is planning to start a new breeding program in cooperation with China.

The agreements need to be signed by Gordon Brown and Hu Jintao (The Chinese President), which was to of taken place during the Beijing Olympics in August 2008. It appears that the signing may happen before then and the zoo could receive the pandas before the planned time of April next year.