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.

China's biggest bank has begun making inroads into this country's mortgage market.

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.

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.

As China's economy has rapidly expanded over the past couple of decades, the Asian superpower's commercial giants have spread their wings and gone out into the world.

China is importing more and more of its agricultural commodities from the United States.

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....

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.

William Yan wants around $4500 to $5000 a month for living expenses paid out of his restrained assets.

A surge in Chinese investment in New Zealand residential real estate is something the Government needs to consider, but at the moment is not a significant issue says John Key.

An Auckland businessman who had $40 million of assets seized this year has told the High Court he gave away a Rolls Royce.

With $1 trillion spent on projects to feed a commodity boom since 2002, the world's mining firms have a lot riding on China.