Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo is paying an official visit to China from January 25 to 28, highlighting the steady growth of bilateral relations. 

Finland is China's third-largest trading partner in the Nordic region, following Sweden and Denmark, and China has remained Finland's largest trading partner in Asia for many consecutive years. 

People-to-people exchanges are also deepening: China's Mudanjiang and Finland's Jyväskylä became the two countries' first pair of twin cities in 1990. In addition, Finland's Lahti has successively established twin-city ties with China's Deyang, Wuxi and Zhangjiakou in 2000, 2012 and 2018.