August 7th, 2007, at the one-year count-down to the Beijing Olympic Games, Olympus (China) Co. Lid. telephoned the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, saying the corporation would adopt the world's first ever “dragon-phoenix” twin pandas born in 2007.
　　 September 1, 2007, representatives of Olympus (China) Co. Lid. arrived in Chengdu far from Japan and held a simple adoption ceremony, naming the twin giant pandas “Ao Lin”and “Ba Shi.” The corporation hopes that its adoption of the actual animal representative of the Beijing Olympic Games mascots giant panda - will show support for the advocacy of a green Olympics in Beijing and also sincerely hopes that this public welfare act will initiate people's love and care for the newborn giant panda babies.
　　 Background information of the subscription raised twin pandas:
　　 At 12:59 and 18:26 respectively, July 5, 2007, an eight-year-old female giant panda named “Shu Qing” at the Panda Base, after 122 days of pregnancy, uneventfully gave birth to two giant panda babies, one male and the other female. These are the world's first ever captivity “dragon-phoenix” twin giant pandas born in 2007(In Chinese, “dragon-phoenix” twins means a twins with a male baby and a female baby). After the breeders weighed and examined the newborns, it was known that the first baby was male, weighing 146.5 grams, head three centimeters long, body 11 centimeters long, tail 4.5 centimeters long, chest and belly both 14 centimeters, and the second baby was female, weighing 129 grams, head three centimeters long, body 11 centimeters long, tail 4.4 centimeters long, chest and belly both 13 centimeters. After about two months of careful breeding, the twin babies are now in very good health, now weighing up to 2605 grams and 2486 grams, respectively.

The close contact with the giant pandas by the general manager of Chengdu branch of Olympus (Shanghai) Imaging Sales Co. Ltd

“ Ao Lin”and “Ba Shi”