Special shareholders meeting will discuss $261m partnership with Chinese company.

COMMENT: Shanghai Pengxin chairman Jiang Zhaobai likens the Overseas Investment Office (OIO) to a "black box".

Zespri won't be exporting to its biggest market by volume until new checking protocols are in place.

WeChat is making its mark in New Zealand with more than 400,000 tourists using the technology to make payments.

Hong Kong-based exchange Bitfinex halted trading, withdrawals and deposits after discovering a security breach.

COMMENT: The broader downstream benefits to New Zealand exporters from increased investment in trade routes and infrastructure are self-evident.

Zespri and the Government are batting away suggestions that politics has played any role in increased scrutiny of New Zealand kiwifruit entering China.

Fonterra's infant formula sales in China are running ahead of its expectations, chairman John Wilson says.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has floated a proposal for a free trade zone to be created in Auckland near to the airport.

Increased Chinese e-commerce regulation is crimping demand in an important sales channel for many NZ manufacturers, says a major exporter.

A new dairy factory, with 100 new jobs is set to open near Gore this October.

Ray White New Zealand says a new move into China isn't designed to flog our homes to foreigners.

One of the region's biggest real estate firms is expanding its reach to get to more Chinese buyers.

China Construction Bank New Zealand has received a $140 million capital injection from its Beijing-based parent.

Silver Fern Farms has got Grant Samuel to back its proposal to sell half its meat processing assets.

WATCH: Billionaire Jack Ma dominates the Chinese e-commerce world - it made him China's richest man.

Behind the Great Firewall, Chinese apps have been flourishing.

Emotional and ideological contagion is becoming a more important source of systemic risk.

The Government has refused to confirm whether NZ Steel has lodged complaints that China is 'dumping' low cost steel in the NZ market

Chinese travellers born in the 1990s are heading out of the country and are spending up large.

China's economy grew 6.7 per cent in the second quarter from a year earlier.

Lenders from Asian powerhouse can fill gap left as big local players end funding for foreign house buyers, says an expert.

Andy Macleod, the chief executive of the Chinese-owned Pengxin New Zealand Farm Group, has resigned.

Failed Crafar farms buyer May Wang is appealing her convictions and her eight-year jail sentence. Wang, also known as May Hao, was

Milk processing firm Miraka is tripling production to meet a growing thirst for its UHT products in China.

Silver Fern Farms and Shanghai Maling have agreed in principle to extend the deadline for their joint venture.

Local government's infrastructure-building monopoly could be removed and Chinese contractors could take the lead.

Time is running out for the proposed tie-up between Silver Fern Farms and a major Chinese investor.

John Key is allowing companies - including from China - to fund and build some of Auckland's infrastructure.