Soldiers of the Armed Police carry giant pandas before transporting them to the Ya'an preservation zone, in the China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center based in Wolong which is only 30 kilometers from the epicenter of last week's 8.0-magnitude earthquake on Richter scale, southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 23, 2008. Eight other giant pandas from quake-hit Sichuan Province will be airlifted to Beijing on May 24 so that the animals can have a better breeding and recovery environment.[Xinhua]