Embassy of New Zealand in China

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Embassy

Address: No.1, Ri Tan Dong Er Street, Chaoyang District Beijing Postal Code: 100600 Tel:  ( ? ) (+86) 10 6532 7000 Fax: (+86) 10 6532 4317 Email: enquiries@nzembassy.cn Website: Website

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New Zealand-China Relations

Sino-New Zealand relations, bilateral relations between New Zealand and China, are excellent, with ever greater trust being developed and shared between the two countries. The key features of this relationship are the Free Trade Agreement, the only one New Zealand has with a major country, and the Education and Exchange programs provided by both countries.

Free trade agreement

A free trade agreement (FTA) between China and New Zealand was signed on 7 April 2008 by Premier of the People's Republic of China Wen Jiabao and Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark in Beijing . Under the agreement, about one third of New Zealand exports to China will be free of tariffs from 1 October 2008, with another third becoming tariff free by 2013, and all but 4% by 2019. In return, 60% of China's exports to New Zealand will become tariff free by 2016 or earlier; more than a third are already duty free. Investment, migration, and trade in services will also be facilitated.

This free trade agreement is New Zealand's largest since the Closer Economic Relations agreement with Australia was signed in 1983. It is the first time China has entered into a comprehensive free trade agreement with a developed country.

The agreement has taken over three years to negotiate. On 19 November 2004 Helen Clark and President of the People's Republic of China, Hu Jintao announced the commencement of negotiations towards an FTA at the APEC Leaders meeting in Santiago, Chile. The first round of negotiations was held in December 2004. Fifteen rounds took place before the FTA was signed in April 2008.

While the FTA enjoys the support of New Zealand's two largest political parties, Labour and National, other parties such as the Green Party and the Māori Party oppose the agreement. Winston Peters was also a vocal opponent of the agreement, but agreed not to criticise it while acting as Minister of Foreign Affairs overseas (a position he held from 2005 to 2008).

Migration

China and New Zealand have a long history of people to people contacts, beginning with the arrival in New Zealand of large numbers of Chinese immigrants in the middle of the nineteenth century (notably goldminers) and travel by New Zealand missionaries and others to China to live and work. Of the early New Zealanders in China, the best known is Rewi Alley, who was a New Zealand-born writer, educator, social reformer, potter, and member of the Communist Party of China and lived and worked in China for 60 years until his death in 1987. He came to symbolise the important role of people to people contacts in building good relations and accentuating common ground between countries as different as New Zealand and China. In 1997, the 100th anniversary of Alley's birth was marked by celebrations in Beijing and New Zealand, and the 110th anniversary was commemorated in 2007.

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If you are from New Zealand and you wish to visit china, Please Visit China Embassy in New Zealand

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