Basi, a 23-year-old giant panda in a zoo in Fuzhou, capital of East China's Fujian Province, cools off with the help of two feeders as a way to deal with the summer heat on July 3, 2003. Fuzhou has experienced high temperatures for many days. The giant panda takes more than three showers per day. [newsphoto.com.cn]

A panda plays in an air-conditioned room in a zoo in Fuzhou, capital of East China's Fujian Province. [newsphoto.com.cn]

A raiser bathes a panda to help it keep cool at the Fuzhou Giant Panda Research Center in southeast China's Fujian Province July 1. The highest temperature has remained at 38 degrees centigrade in Fuzhou, the provincial capital, in the past few days. [Xinhua]

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