HONG KONG (AP) — A whole bunch gathered in Hong Kong on Saturday to look at town’s first pyrotechnics drone present, as a part of a marketing campaign to boost assist and consciousness of panda conservation.
The ten-minute drone present featured 1,000 drones, a few of which had been outfitted with fireworks, flying over Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour and forming photographs of town’s big pandas.
Throughout sure components of the spectacle, some drones displayed fireworks, whereas a whole lot of others fashioned a three-dimensional panda that slowly rotated within the sky.
Some keen spectators arrived hours earlier than the present to make sure that they might get a great viewing spot.
Eddie Chow, a father who introduced his two youngsters to the drone present, mentioned such reveals might entice extra vacationers to Hong Kong.
“I believe the rundown was nice, combining fireworks and drones is a really particular theme, Hong Kong ought to have extra of those actions,” mentioned Chow, including that Saturday’s spectacle was his first expertise in watching a drone present.
Different spectators, resembling Jodi Hung, a Hong Kong resident in her 20s, additionally praised the drone present as “nice.”
“I believe individuals who designed the drone present had excellent method, very wonderful, they mixed artwork and methods collectively,” Hung mentioned.
Hong Kong has launched a sequence of actions throughout town in current weeks –- together with exhibitions and a panda-themed carnival -– after Beijing gifted Hong Kong with a pair of big pandas, named An An and Ke Ke. The arrival of the pair takes the entire variety of big pandas in Hong Kong to 6, all of whom reside on the metropolis’s Ocean Park, a theme park comprising amusement park rides and animal displays.
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