New Zealand is well placed to reap the benefits of an ongoing relationship, says ambassador Wang Lutong.

Alexander Speirs travelled to China to investigate the country's transformation from the world's factory into an innovation hub.

NZ is leading the world in relations with China, presenting this country with a massive growth opportunity - if it can position itself to maintain its lead, writes David Green.

We need to stay in touch with changes in China writes Tim Groser.

Michael Pettis must be the world's coolest economist, Liam Dann writes.

Justice Minister says she has had no extradition requests from China despite reports showing up to 20 of the country's most wanted fugitives fled to New Zealand.

China's push to challenge US dominance in global trade and finance may involve gold - a lot of gold.

Atlas Iron, Australia's fourth-largest iron ore supplier, will suspend all operations this month in response to a slump in prices to their lowest in a decade.

The world-beating surge in Chinese technology stocks is making the heady days of the US dot-com bubble look tame by comparison.

Gina Rinehart has locked in supply contracts with three of the largest iron ore-consuming Asian nations outside of China.

Fran O'Sullivan on governor Lu Hao - widely tipped to be a major player in Beijing's "next generation" leadership - who was in NZ yesterday.

Business editor Liam Dann is heading to China to look at China's slowing economic growth and how it will affect NZ.

The Government has yet to decide whether to join a multilateral bank to finance infrastructure in Asia, an initiative led by China but opposed by the US.

Competition for air travel between New Zealand and China is set to intensify with plans by Air China to fly daily direct flights between Auckland and Beijing this year.

A partnership with Beingmate Baby & Child could begin boosting Fonterra's branded infant formula sales in China this year.

China's decision to lower its annual GDP growth target to around 7 per cent should not have a significant impact on demand for New Zealand commodities, HSBC's chief economist for Australia and New....

The rise of the Chinese economy over the past 20 years has been transformational for New Zealand, writes Bernard Doyle.

China's central bank has cut the country's official cash rate for the second time in three months - a move which highlights concern about the economic slowdown of New Zealand's largest trading....

Iraq will inevitably dominate Friday's talks between John Key and Tony Abbott - but it should not obscure progress on the vital transtasman economic agenda.

Having chugged along through the financial crisis, China's huge expansion in debt now threatens to destabilise the economy.

Economic reform in China, one of New Zealand's largest trading partners accounting for 22 per cent of exports, is a lower priority than trying to save the Communist Party, according to Wall Street....

Bringing the American way of selling skin-care products and vitamins to China helped make Amway the world's largest direct seller.

A growing portion of China's toilet waste is converted into fertiliser and biogas.

China's government is said to be lifting a ban on imports of a genetically-modified corn variety that's commonly grown in the US.

A Chinese factory gauge fell to a seven-month low in December, suggesting further stimulus is needed to halt a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy.