On 11 June, at the 2026 China Business Awards hosted by the New Zealand China Trade Association (NZCTA), the New Zealand China Council sponsored the award for Outstanding Individual Contribution to the NZ-China Business Relationship. Read More
New Zealand China Council Chair John McKinnon attended the 2026 annual conference of the New Zealand China Friendship Society in Whanganui last month. He made the following remarks at the conference. Photo by Sharon Fraser. Read More
Currently over 33% of New Zealand’s international students are from China, totaling almost 30,000 students in 2024. The lifelong connections these links create have helped to fuel the bilateral relationship in many other ways. But… Read More
This article by New Zealand China Council Executive Director Alistair Crozier was originally published by the Post on 24 March 2026. Photo by Alexander Schimmeck on Unsplash. The annual meeting of the world’s largest… Read More
New Zealand’s education engagement with China produces long-term ‘relationship infrastructure’ that boosts our society and economy in multiple areas beyond the direct export education sector. But as China’s birth rate declines, we are in intense… Read More
This article by New Zealand China Council Executive Director Alistair Crozier was originally published by the Asia Media Centre on 25 Feb 2026. Photo by Dominic Kurniawan Suryaputra on Unsplash. Read More
This article by New Zealand China Council Chair John McKinnon was originally published in The Post on 18 Feb 2026. Cover Photo by Vlada Karpovich from Pexels. OPINION: If there is one language everybody… Read More
Following its recent 2025 Annual General Meeting, the New Zealand China Council is pleased to confirm three new Council appointments commencing in 2026: Incoming Air New Zealand Chief Executive Nikhil Ravishankar will succeed his predecessor… Read More
Cover image – Shanghai Yangshan Port by Qian Wenjun We’re pleased to share reporting from our 2025 New Zealand journalists visit to China. These days it seems China or a China-related issue is… Read More
It’s challenging to take China’s pulse and understand its directions and challenges from afar. On our regular visits to China we aim to meet a wide range of experts and longstanding contacts, to listen to… Read More
Here is the issue: foreign language study in New Zealand is declining. The August 2025 report from the Language Learning for New Zealand’s Future Forum noted that “fewer students are learning languages now than… Read More
The New Zealand China Council welcomes two new corporate members: Primary Collaboration New Zealand to be represented by Chair Andrew (Andy) Borland, and the Bioeconomy Science Institute represented by CEO Mark Piper. Established in 2014,… Read More
The Schwarzman Scholars Programme offers an unparalleled chance to study global affairs for a year at Tsinghua University in Beijing, taught by and studying alongside some of the world’s best and brightest. Yet few New… Read More
The New Zealand China Council Te Kaunihera o Aotearoa me Haina is offering a unique opportunity to New Zealand young professionals and emerging leaders aged 35 and under to join the Council as Next Generation… Read More
A new report by the New Zealand China Council and the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) says China’s foreign investment into New Zealand grew by a yearly average of 9% in 2014-2024 –… Read More
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