New Zealand on China
Covering the latest news, debate and research from New Zealand and China.
Upcoming Events
Public Service Reform in China and the Asia-Pacific: Theory and Practice
New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre and the School of Politics and Public Administration of China University of Political Science and Law will jointly host an international conference on public service reform in China and the Asia-Pacific 19-20 May, 2012 in Beijing. We are calling for paper proposals until 30 March, 2012.
Successful Branding and Channel Management in China
New Zealand China Trade Association and New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre will have its 2nd China Business Symposium on 1 March, 2012.
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China Lecture
Senior Chinese scholar lectures on China and the United States in the Asia-Pacific
Professor Liru Cui, the president of China Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) and this year’s Prime Minister Fellow from China, gave a public lecture to an audience of more than 40 participants from the policy, academic and diplomatic communities on ‘China and the United States in the Asia Pacific' jointly hosted by New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre and Centre for Strategic Studies in Victoria University
Seminar
Local Government Debt and Reform of Public Sector Financing in China
Dr Wang Dongfang, a visiting fellow at the Centre from China University of Political Science and Law, looked at the problem of public sector financing at local government levels as part of the large issue of public sector reform in China.
Leading scholars on China and and Japan gathered in early December to examine the the experiences of modern economic growth and development of China and Japan, at this year's Wellington Conference on Contemporary China, an international conference organized annual by the China Centre. This year's conference was co-hosted with the NZ Asia Institute of the University of Auckland.
Leading experts on China and the South Pacific from Victoria University, University of Auckland and Canterbury University gathered at Victoria University of Wellington at a half-day public symposium to examine China’s relations with the South Pacific and its changing roles in the region.
The growing impact China is having on New Zealand, Australia and the wider Asia-Pacific region was discussed by experts from both sides of the Tasman at a special one-day public symposium at Victoria on Thursday. 
This book examines the role of institutions in China’s recent large-scale economic, social and political transformation. The book considers whether institutions form, evolve and change differently according to their historical or cultural environments and if their utilitarian functions can, and should be, observed, identified and measured in different ways, and suggests theoretical and methodological adjustments in institutional analysis to allow a fuller understanding of the institutional dynamics of China’s transformation.
The book asks the question whether the impressive economic growth and development of China and India constitute a unique model of modern economic development. The book argues that 'development models' can be descriptive, explanatory and prescriptive. In the cases of China and India, there is a clear pattern of historical emergence of the new economic system in the two countries. Beyond that, in either the explanatory or prescriptive sense, evidence from the two experiences are not consistent to support popular development models, formulated largely out of the earlier development experiences; nor are they strong enough to call for (a) new development model(s).
Dr Marc Lanteigne and Dr Jason Young lead a research project that examines the political economy of New Zealand trade and investment in China and Chinese investment in New Zealand. The first stage of the project is to look at Fonterra’s investment in dairy farming in China. 
This two-year study on the internationalisation of New Zealand service firms into China and India, led by Associate Professor Val Lindsay of Victoria University, has recently been completed.