Tian Tian (female giant panda) Tian Tian (female giant panda) Tian Tian (, meaning "Sweetie") is a female panda born on 24 August 2003 at the Beijing Zoo from mother Niu Niu and father Ying Ying, and currently resident at Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland. She arrived in Edinburgh in December 2011 together with a male panda named Yáng Guāng (, meaning "sunshine"). Currently they are the only two pandas in the United Kingdom. They are on a 10-year loan from the Bifengxia Breeding Centre in China at a cost of £640,000 per year. When in China Tian Tian, successfully gave birth to twins on 7 August
Tian Dawei Tian Dawei Tian Dawei (; August 1931 – 12 June 2013) was a Chinese translator and official. He served as vice president of the National Library of China, and was an official in the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China. Tian was among the first in China who translated the works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn into Chinese. Tian was born in a high educated family, in 1931, in Beijing, the son of An E (), a poet and translator, and Tian Han, a playwright who wrote the lyrics for "March of the Volunteers" in 1934. In 1936, Tian