China state news agency Xinhua warns the PM to steer clear of talking about territorial disputes in the South China Sea if he wants any traction in trade talks.

Prime Minister John Key and Foreign Minister Murray McCully will start campaigning in force for former rival Helen Clark this week.

John Key will put some hefty New Zealand issues on Beijing's radar screen on Monday as he gets down to business with China's top leaders.

As China's booming middle class junks aging cars and appliances, the next threat to the world's ailing iron-ore producers is materializing.

Thanks to mandatory shareholder disclosures, the clearest picture yet of China's state-run investing behemoth, is coming into view.

COMMENT: Lessons from the Panama Papers.

COMMENT: Free trade will top PM's priorities, with issues including dairy, territory and extradition.

Trade Minister Todd McClay says the Government is assessing the implications of recent regulatory changes in China's cross border e-commerce market.

Prime Minister John Key will visit China this month to discuss the free trade agreement between the two countries.

Chinese investment in Australian real estate doubled last year, but interest in New Zealand has dropped.

The range of New Zealand skincare products will be distributed by China's largest traditional medicine company.

COMMENT: It's interesting how often the most tantalising insights are tucked away at the bottom of press releases.

SPONSORED CONTENT: Chief executive Karen Housays hiring local talent is part of ambitious plans to help develop a bilateral trade relationship.

The botox boom is hitting China - where it's the young, not the old getting the jab.

The Film Commission is pushing film-makers to use a co-production treaty with China as way to improve access to the burgeoning Chinese box office.

The real question is not why Canada has sold its gold; it's why other countries remain so wedded to maintaining - even accumulating -- stocks of it.

NZ entrepreneurs are some of the key players behind a culinary incubator in Beijing that allows would-be restauranteurs to test dining concepts.

The bridge between Macau and Hong Kong is slated for completion in 2017.

John Key is tipping that China will inevitably be forced to devalue its currency in a move that will increase its competitive tensions with the US.

DJI's newest drone is commercializing technology that only recently was being tested in university labs.

A trillion dollar cross-border e-commerce market is pushing Chinese banks into New Zealand, where they are looking to take business from established banking players.

Western writers tend to subscribe -- explicitly or implicitly -- to one of two folk theories of China. Both have serious deficiencies.

From a small start, student's business grew into a $30m-a-year operation, writes Christopher Adams.

Fonterra's Chinese partner says easing of rules on family size will keep the demand for infant formula strong.

Kang is one of 900,000 investors caught up in what's being billed as China's largest-ever online scam, a scandal that has robbed them of US$7.6 billion.

There are good reasons to think that the Chinese government still has the capability to control the country's capital account, writes Nick Dravitzki.

Asia's biggest economy looks to limit manufacturers to three labels and impose stricter safety procedures.

As China steps up efforts to maintain order in a slowing economic environment we may see more dramatic moves shaking things up in our part of the world.

Casino operator SkyCity Entertainment is keeping a close watch on China's capital control crackdown.