Hua Bao in Sichuan on January 16 [Photo/Xinhua]

Jin Bao Bao in Sichuan on January 16 [Photo/Xinhua]

Two giant pandas, Hua Bao and Jin Bao Bao departed a panda protection center in Dujiangyan, Sichuan Province, China on January 17, heading to Finland.

Back to April last year, China and Finland signed a document on cooperation in research on the conservation of giant panda, and the former decided to send a pair of pandas to the later for the 15-year research at Ähtäri Zoo.