Chinese visa for German citizen travelling through Finland

My British boyfriend and I (German citizen) will be travelling through Scandinavia from October-December and intend to enter China in late December. Because it is advised to apply for a Chinese tourist visa no more than 3 months in advance, I wanted to ask if it still possible (as of 2016) to apply for a Chinese visa in Helsinki? How likely is it for the application to be successful if we're technically just travelling through Finland?