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The world's oldest captive panda celebrated her 37th birthday, equivalent to more than 100 human years, on Wednesday in east China's Fuzhou City, capital of Fujian Province.
Basi, born in 1980, is the oldest, and possibly the most famous, panda on the Chinese mainland. In 1990, she was chosen as the model for Pan Pan, the mascot of the Beijing Asian Games. She got her name after being rescued from the Basi Gorge in Baoxing County of southwest China's Sichuan Province.
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