Three-year-old female panda Jin Baobao, who will be known by the Finnish name Lumi, and four-year-old male Hua Bao, who will be known as Pyry, arrived at Helsinki Airport after a long journey from a giant panda base in China's southwestern Sichuan province, reported Efe news agency.
The animals, which have been loaned to the northern European country's Ahtari Zoo for a 15-year period, were given a healthy selection of bamboo, carrot, apple and "panda cakes" for the trip to satisfy their big appetites.
A keeper and a vet accompanied the creatures on the flight, reported Xinhua.
Ahtari Zoo director Jukka Salo was quoted as saying the snowy winter landscape of Finland was similar to the pandas' natural habitat in China.
Images showed the pair being transported in cages upon their arrival at the airport on Thursday morning.
China has been making use of "panda diplomacy" for many years, whereby it loans the animals to foreign countries for a certain period of time as diplomatic gifts.
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