Giant panda Mao Zhu celebrated its sixth birthday with tourists in Kunming City, southwest China's Yunnan Province on Sunday.

Staff members made an ice cake with fruits and vegetables for the special day. Decorated with six bamboo shoots as candles, the cake was made from frozen juice of watermelon, apple, Hami melon and other fruits and vegetables.

More than 50 residents and tourists signed up for the celebration and sang a birthday song for the panda. Mao Zhu also "shared" a cream cake prepared by the staff with its fans.

"I am six years old now, the same age as Mao Zhu. I am very happy to share Mao Zhu's birthday cake," said Chen Jingyi, a kid.

According to a staff member of the giant panda pavilion of Yunnan Wildlife Park, this is the first birthday after Mao Zhu becomes an adult. Mao Zhu was born in 2014 at the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Base and moved to its new home in Yunnan in 2016. Its mother, Mao Mao, is the inspiration for the Beijing Olympic mascot "Jingjing" and, its father, Xiong Bang, is a returnee from overseas.