'Long-awaited dream'), nicknamed Pit, is a male giant panda.
[2] Born in the Berlin Zoo on August 31, 2019,[3] Meng Xiang and his twin Meng Yuan were the first giant pandas born in Germany.
[4] Their father Jiao Qing and mother Meng Meng[5] were both from Sichuan,[6] and arrived in Berlin for 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Germany in 2017.
[7] The births of Meng Xiang and Meng Yuan coincided with the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, bringing controversy to the naming of the twin panda cubs.
Their handover was contractually agreed to between Germany and China, but was delayed by the pandemic.