Enhancing Exchanges and Cooperation: China-New Zealand Relations

Date: 7 September 2016

China and New Zealand have a comprehensive strategic partnership. The futures of the two countries are closely linked. It is the common aspiration of the two countries to further enhance and promote exchanges and cooperation between them.

As a major player of the Asia-Pacific region, China is making an increasingly important contribution to the development of the region. In its efforts to achieve its “Two Centennial Goals,” China is currently implementing the concept of innovative, coordinated, green, open and shared development.

China’s development provides new opportunities for both China and New Zealand and brings benefits to the people, including young students, of the two countries. China is willing to make joint efforts with New Zealand to promote pragmatic cooperation, as well as people-to-people and cultural exchanges, in order to move the bilateral relationship between China and New Zealand to a new level.

About the speaker

Mr Qi Xuchun is the Vice Chairman of The Twelfth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

He was born in January 1946, of Manchu ethnicity, and graduated from the Mathematics Faculty of Beijing University.

Mr Qi has spent his career first as a teacher and researcher in Hebei Province, and then has held government and judicial positions in the Chengde region of Hebei from 1983-2000. He has also been active in the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomingtang, and is currently the Executive Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang. Mr Qi has been involved in provincial and national CPPCC affairs. He held the position of Deputy Secretary General of The Ninth and Tenth National Committees of the CPPCC from 2000-2007.