The Prime Minister has faced two curly issues on his trade mission to China where he hopes to update our free trade agreement.

New Zealand will get a better deal from its Free Trade Agreement with China, John Key says.

John Key mindful of message - with own requests, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

China Daily reports that China and New Zealand will increase agricultural co-operation and upgrade their free trade agreement to further cut tariffs and boost exchanges.

John Key says New Zealand could enter into an extradition treaty with China.

China's richest man, Alibaba online shopping founder Jack Ma, says he'd like to buy a home in New Zealand.

COMMENT: Recent estimates show that most members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership will make substantial gains, unlike those who opt not to participate.

New Zealand trade officials have signed a deal with the world's largest online marketplace, China's Alibaba Group.

Key is downplaying warnings in Chinese state-run media not to raise the South China Seas if he wants progress on trade.

Prime Minister John Key's son, Max, has gone to China with Mr Key for the ride, and has his own programme.

COMMENT: Regardless of the intent, the regulatory changes send a clear message from the Chinese: you need us.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

News of Chinese regulatory changes has given local investors jitters and hit Australasian infant formula and health supplement stocks.

Infant formula and health supplement firms are taking a sharemarket pounding today.

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.

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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.