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{{Infobox
| title = Lan Lan
| label1 = [[Chinese language|Chinese]]|data1=兰兰
| label2 =Born|data2=1969<ref>{{cite news|title=Information about Giant Panda Lan Lan|url=https://pandanews.org/the-pandas/111_lan-lan.html|work=Panda News|accessdate=2021-06-11|author=}}</ref>
| label3 =Died|data3=September 4, 1979<ref name="Kisling2000">{{cite book|author=Vernon N. Kisling|title=Zoo and Aquarium History: Ancient Animal Collections To Zoological Gardens|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ulbMBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA315|date=18 September 2000|publisher=[[CRC Press]]|isbn=978-1-4200-3924-5|pages=315–}}</ref><br/>[[Ueno Zoo]], [[Japan]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Panda That Was a Gift Of China Dies in Japan|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/09/04/archives/panda-that-was-a-gift-of-china-dies-in-japan.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=September 4, 1979|author=}}</ref>
}}
'''Lan Lan''' ({{zh|c=兰兰}}; 1969 - September 4, 1979) was a female [[giant panda]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Japan Mourns Lan Lan, Who Conquered Public|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/09/05/archives/japan-mourns-lan-lan-who-conquered-public.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=September 5, 1979|author=}}</ref> born in [[China]]. Along with [[Kang Kang (giant panda)|Kang Kang]], they were the first pair of giant pandas at the [[Ueno Zoo]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Feature: Japanese people show rapturous love for giant pandas at Tokyo's Ueno zoo|url=http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/13/c_138223190.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190713062337/http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/13/c_138223190.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 13, 2019|work=[[Xinhua News Agency]]|date=2019-07-13|author=}}</ref> gifted to [[Japan]] by China after the normalization of relations between the two countries.<ref>{{cite news|title=Pandas Mate in Tokyo Zoo|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/05/archives/pandas-mate-in-tokyo-zoo.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=June 5, 1977|author=}}</ref>
Lan Lan and Kang Kang caused an immediate sensation when they arrived in Japan. <ref>{{cite news|title=Xiang Xiang debuts at Tokyo Zoo|url=http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/1220/c90000-9306549.html|work=[[People's Daily]]|date=December 20, 2017|author=}}</ref> Subsequently, a so-called "panda boom" occurred in the country.<ref>{{cite news|title=Pandas coming to Ueno part of bigger pattern|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/09/14/reference/pandas-coming-to-ueno-part-of-bigger-pattern/|work=[[The Japan Times]]|date=Sep 14, 2010|author=}}</ref> In 1974, this pair of giant pandas attracted 7.64 million visitors.<ref>{{cite news|title=Giant panda cub makes debut in Tokyo|url=https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2017/12/510946ae65e1-giant-panda-cub-makes-debut-in-tokyo.html|work=[[Kyodo News]]|date=Dec 19, 2017|author=}}</ref>
Kang Kang and Lan Lan failed to give birth to babies. In September 1979, 10-year-old Lan Lan died of acute renal insufficiency complicated by uremia, and the fetus was found in its [[abdomen|belly]] during the [[autopsy]]. <ref>{{cite news|title=Chinese giant panda's journey to Japan|url=https://cn.nikkei.com/politicsaeconomy/politicsasociety/32988-2018-11-12-05-00-00.html?start=2|work=[[The Nikkei]]|date=Nov 12, 2018|author=}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[Kang Kang (giant panda)|Kang Kang]]
* [[Panda diplomacy]]
* [[List of giant pandas]]
* [[List of individual bears]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Famous giant pandas}}
[[Category:1969 animal births]]
[[Category:1979 animal deaths]]
[[Category:Individual giant pandas]]
[[Category:Individual animals in Japan]]
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