11-year-old Emirati pupil Hamdan Al Nahyan, naming himself "Giant Panda," requests to visit China and see pandas to President Xi Jinping, boosting China-UAE ties.

11-year-old Emirati pupil Hamdan Shakhboot Al Nahyan, who named himself "Giant Panda" in Chinese, expressed his wish to visit China and see giant pandas directly to President Xi Jinping. This exchange of letters has boosted China-UAE ties. Hamdan transferred to the Hamdan Bin Zayed School in Abu Dhabi in 2022, where Chinese-language classes were introduced in 2006.