Trade
New Zealand Seeks Trade Diversity With China as Hipkins Meets Xi
- Trade delegation to China includes gaming, fitness companies
- New Zealand also wants Chinese tourists, students to return
Chris Hipkins
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Having struggled to reduce its trade reliance on China, New Zealand is now trying to diversify within it.
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has begun a six-day visit to his nation’s biggest export market, seeking to drum up demand for a wider array of goods and services than the traditional fare of milk, logs and lamb. He is due to meet with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang while in Beijing, and will also attend a World Economic Forum event in Tianjin.