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The United States not only approves of New Zealand's close relationship with China, it is counting on it, says Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, who was in Wellington at the weekend for strategic talks.

A group of more than 200 top Chinese travel agents have arrived in Auckland on a double-decker Airbus A380 plane.

China has named New Zealand as one of 45 countries whose people will be allowed to stay in Beijing visa-free for up to three days during a transit break from a trip to another destination.

New Zealand's milk production leaped 11.3 per cent last season, the most productive on record.

The Chinese consider the giant panda a national treasure, and it's evident just how much they're loved when one visits Chengdu Research Base.

Millions of Chinese have viewed the pictures of Queenstown that Yao Chen has posted on her Weibo page.

The China Private Banking Report 2012, by China Minsheng Bank and McKinsey, surveyed 700 Chinese with more than $1.2 million in investable assets.

The Government is facing heat over its relationship with SkyCity after claims the casino lobbied it over a deal to fast-track visas for wealthy Chinese visitors.

Local scientists have devised an inventive way of identifying fake milk powder being sold on the international market as a New Zealand product.

"Substandard" NZ-made baby formula and milk powder is being rejected at China's border, raising concerns that media coverage could damage our reputation.

Speculation is rife about the changing of the guard at the 18th Communist Party Congress and what a new leadership will mean for China and the world.

Money spent by Chinese visitors to New Zealand has soared nearly 40 per cent in the past year, taking it past the UK as our second biggest source of tourism dollars.

Fonterra has signed an agreement to develop two more large-scale dairy farms in China.

The new sponsor of the Warriors rugby league team has been using Maori imagery to sell milk powder - despite vowing last year to stop.