Finland welcomes China's panda pair

Finland welcomed its first pair of giant pandas this week, making it the eighth country in Europe to forge a tie with China in the realm of panda conservation and research.

HuaBao and Jin BaoBao, who will be known in Finnish as 'Lumi' (Snow) and 'Pyry'(Flurry), arrived in Helsinki from Chengdu, Sichuan province, on Thursday morning.

The arrangement was confirmed when President Xi Jinping visited the country in April.