Lien Chan, honorary chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) party, and his wife Fang-Yu, holding panda cubs, pose for a photo in the Wolong giant panda research center in southwest China's Sichuan Province Thursday October 27, 2005. Lien said he would make efforts to promote the early arrival in Taiwan of a pair of panda that the mainland offers to the island as a gift.

(Xinhua News Agency; China Daily October 28, 2005)