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.

After 30 years in publishing, Wendy Pye still approaches business with the eagerness of a child learning to read.

Beingmate warned investors this month it was anticipating a first half loss of up to 230 million yuan ($48.7 million).

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.

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.

Wal-Mart hasn't met the target its manufacturing move had hoped for.

COMMENT: Trade disputes are difficult but the allegation of steel dumping by China is playing out more messily than most.

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.

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.

Prime Minister John Key has floated the idea of a powerful new agency to oversee major building projects.

A2 Milk shares rose 14 per cent after the milk marketing company raised its full-year guidance.

All systems are go for the opening of the Disney Shanghai Resort, but it history is a guide, it could be turbulent.

COMMENT: Just as New Zealanders come to grips with the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, its largely invisible twin is coming to town.

The 2015 crash that erased $5 trillion from stocks has sobered China's 106 million individual investors.

I recently learned of a personal shopping phenomenon hugely popular in China which, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, is "leading Australia's retail drive".