the manchester city football club has launched a new online campaign, calling on internet users in china to choose a new name for a giant panda the english 1 league club recently adopted in chengdu, reports the chengdu commercial daily.
曼彻斯特城足球俱乐部发起一场网络活动,号召中国网民为英超足球俱乐部最近收养的大熊猫起新名。
well over 300 suggestions have already been submitted since the campaign's launch on december 15, 2018 through ipanda, a video website featuring giant pandas. one of first
2 was "fu man." "fu" would be
3 from the
4's original name, "fushun," while "man" would be a reference to manchester.
the manchester-based club
5 to foster the panda cub when paul dickov and other team members visited the chengdu research base of giant panda breeding in sichuan province in october. the club made a public donation of 100,000 yuan (around 14,500 u.s. dollars) to the research base at that time, allowing it to adopt the panda for a year. manchester city has now gained its
6 certificate.
the two-year-old panda is already popular online, gaining world-wide attention for a video showing the cub fall face-first off a stage during its first public display in september, 2016. a photo capturing the incident was in the running for pictures of the year in 2016 among major media
7 including reuters, time, and the atlantic monthly.