Heavy snowfall welcomes giant pandas arriving in Finland
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Snowflakes swirled around the Helsinki-Vantaa International Airport on Thursday morning, as a crowd welcomed a pair of Chinese giant pandas eating bamboo inside two transparent glass boxes.
Xinhua丨Updated: January 19, 2018
Two boxes carrying a pair of Chinese giant pandas who have just arrived in Helsinki, Finland, are ready to be transported to Ahtari Zoo on January 18, 2018. A pair of giant pandas have departed a panda base in Sichuan Province of China bound for Finland on a 15-year research project. [Photo/Xinhua]