When Mr Yong, assistant marketing manager for a Shenzhen manufacturing company, produced a pair of pink star-shaped nipple covers for my perusal, I began to sense a problem. "No!" I cried, anxiously. "It's tips for chair legs I want."
A majority of voters want NZ to keep out of any conflict that could flare up in the East China Sea.
Like so many iconic American products, Los Angeles smog is now being made in China.
Fonterra has raised 1.25 billion renminbi in its second Chinese currency denominated bond, which it will use to repay debt and expand operations in China.
Outside Tibet, Duncan Gillies is intrigued, puzzled and mystified by an unexpected Tibetan experience.
The equivalent of the population of the Wellington region dies each year in China because of air pollution, according to the country's former Health Minister.
It is a bustling city of seven million people, many drawn from China's rural hinterland to work in its factories, shops, karaoke parlours and restaurants.
There's much more to do in Macau than gamble, writes Brendan Manning.
Online retailer ASOS has joined a host of upmarket shops in banning angora products over a viral video exposing the cruelty that rabbits suffer.
A man whose right hand was severed in an industrial accident had it sewn to his ankle for a month while he waited to undergo reattachment surgery in China.
Pandas and a soaring Buddha statue greet Harriet O'Brien on a visit to this Sichuan city.
China successfully carried out the world's first soft landing of a space probe on the moon in nearly four decades, state media said, the next stage in an ambitious space program that aims to eventually put a Chinese astronaut on the moon. Check out the photos of their space program.
A labour group monitoring three Chinese factories that make iPhones and other Apple products says once-oppressive working conditions have steadily improved in the last 18 months.
Some of the more than 6000 propaganda posters printed between 1940 and 1990, which are on display at this private museum.
High-rise future looks forward, but Communist-era posters tells a fascinating tale, writes Duncan Gillies.
It's a critical time to boost the relationship between NZ and China, writes Ambassador Wang Lutong.
May 12, 2013, marked the fifth anniversary of the Wenchuan earthquake in the Sichuan Province of China.
New Zealand is lying relatively low amid increased tensions in the East China Sea dispute between China, and the United States and its allies, and seems determined not to criticise anyone.
South Korean and Japanese flights through China's new maritime air defence zone added to the international defiance of rules Beijing says it has imposed in East China Sea but that neighbours and the US have vowed to ignore.
China's new maritime air defence zone is unenforceable, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said yesterday.