Six new pandas arrived at Beijing Zoo last month from Sichuan, but few of the visitors flocking to see them would suspect the hardship the animals have endured in the past 12 months.
Four of them - Xiangge, Shuiling, Qingfeng and Wenyu - experienced first-hand the catastrophic earthquake that hit Sichuan a year ago when their home at the Wolong Giant Panda Breeding Centre was laid to waste.
The centre was just 30km from the epicentre and the quake destroyed much of the site, killing five employees and at least one panda.
When a South China Morning Post reporter visited the breeding centre a week after the earthquake, the four pandas sat listlessly on the ground. They appeared shell-shocked and tired - they had even lost their appetite for bamboo leaves.
'It took a while for them to recover from the shock,' a breeder at the centre said. 'For the first few days, they just hid in the trees and refused to come down.'
China has more than 1,590 pandas, according to a 2003 survey, and 76 per cent of them are in Sichuan. The centre was home to more than 140 before the quake, making it the largest of its kind in the country.