Food is key to Chinese New Year, and families and restaurants will ring in the Year of the Monkey with special feasts.

The Chinese Communist Party has explained Xi's "Four Comprehensives" in a mystifying and rather cute pop video.

It would be a big step for powerhouse to accede to TPP agreement, with intellectual protection a thorny issue.

There are good reasons to think that the Chinese government still has the capability to control the country's capital account, writes Nick Dravitzki.

When China sneezes, New Zealand catches a cold - so the saying goes, and not without reason.

Across Auckland, dances, fireworks and feasts will usher in the Year of the Monkey. Lincoln Tan looks at a festival being welcomed to the cultural landscape.

When Sally Liu returned to China for a visit and her aunt asked how much she earned as a university lecturer, it took her a moment to answer.

The world's longest and highest glass-bottom bridge opens in China this year.

China stocks have tumbled again, hitting fresh one-year lows amid signs the recent market rout is triggering margin calls and forced liquidation, threatening yet another vicious downward market spiral.

But China's firms can't buy their way to success.

A Chinese crackdown on capital flight has the potential to bring the Auckland housing market's bull run to a grinding halt, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

New Zealand's tourism industry doesn't expect China's economic woes to put the brakes on fast-growing visitor arrivals from that country.

What's the point of market turmoil if the best stuff doesn't actually fall very far?

If it's true that the stock market has predicted nine out of the last five recessions, then let's hope that this is one of those four fake-outs.

China is adding debt at a pretty fast pace even though it's already done too much of that the last seven years.

Markets started the week gripped by a fresh bout of risk aversion, as Asian stocks slipped with energy-linked currencies.

Celebrations for Chinese New Year in Auckland will start two weeks earlier this year to avoid clashes with Waitangi Day weekend and Auckland Anniversary.

Concern about low oil prices and China's growth prospects has driven New Zealand's sharemarket lower.

China has been roundly criticized for its hit-or-miss approach to checking excessive volatility, yet many nations have similar mechanisms.

Lewis Road Creamery will make a final decision this year whether to export its organic milk into China's Shanghai.

China's GDP announcement will come next week, amid scepticism about how well the economic report informs the financial world.

The New Zealand dollar rose as oil prices gained from a 12-year low and Chinese stocks gained in afternoon trading.

Chengdu is a booming high-tech hub but fiery cuisine and pandas - came first.