Huang Xiaoming poses for a photo with a panda cub in his arms.

Chinese actor Huang Xiaoming, an ambassador to China's Panda Protection Research Center, recently visited the giant panda breeding base in Ya'an, Sichuan Province to shoot a commercial on panda protection.

During his visit, Huang put on a keeper's suit and tried his hand cutting bamboo, cleaning cages and feeding the bears.

Last month, the star announced that he had adopted a pair of giant panda twins with a donation of one million yuan, or about 150,000 US dollars. The twin cubs, which have not yet been named, were born on July 6, 2008, the first panda babies born after the magnitude-8 earthquake that hit Sichuan in May.