Conference
China's Global Course: The Political Economy of China Going Global
The Wellington Conference on Contemporary China this year will be held in Wellington 20-21 August.
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Lectures and Seminars
The Challenges of Building the Social Sector in China
Professor Andrew Watson of the Centre for Asian Studies at the University of Adelaide, spoke at the China Centre in Novemnber 2012. His topic was the challenge of building the social sector to achieve greater social justice and equity to respond to the social and economic challenges facing China.
Chinese NPPCC Chairman Jia delivers a keynote speech at the Centre to mark the 40th anniversary of the NZ-China diplomatic relations
Chinese NPPCC Chairman Jia Qinglin, leading a 40-person strong delegation in an official visit to New Zealand, delivered a keynote speech at the NZ Contemporary China Research Centre on the 17th April, 2012, as part of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of New Zealand-China diplomatic relations.
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 on Preserving Stability in China: The Ritualistic Quality of Political Discourse
Professor Maruizio Marinelli, Director of the China Research Centre of the University of Technology, Sydney, gave a seminar looking at the political use of formalized language, with particular attention to the possible attainment, via language of the declared aim of 'preserving stability'.
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Seminar on Development and Opening-Up
of Film Industry in China
Dr Kang Xueju, China Centre's Visiting Fellow this yearn and Associate Professor at Hebei University of Economics and Business, presented a seminar on the Chinese Film Industry on Thursday 2 August.
The China Centre marked the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between New Zealand and China on the 4th of December at a symposium jointly organised by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in association with the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs and the National Institute of Institute of International Affairs (CASS). Keynote addresses were delivered by Professor Huang Haotao, Secretary General of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Professor Neil Quigley, Deputy Vice Chancellor of Victoria University of Wellington. Symposium delegates included past and present ambassadors to China and New Zealand, public servants, academics and representatives of the private sector. Four panels discussed the evolution of New Zealand China relations over the last forty years across a variety of diplomatic, cultural and social, strategic and economic subject areas. The full symposium report is available at the link below.
The China Centre cohost with the NZ Institute of International Affairs and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a public symposium marking the 40th anniversary of the establishment of NZ-China diplomatic relations at Parliament on the 5th of September. The Rt Hon John Key, pictured left, opened the symposium with a keynote speech. The Prime Minister’s speech traversed the wide range of achievements of the first 40 years of diplomatic relations between New Zealand and China, covering politics, trade, investment, people-to-people exchanges and cooperation agreements. The keynote speech was followed by four panels that explored 40 years of politics and diplomacy, the social impact, the economic relationship and asked where to from here? 
Leading China scholars from China, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand gathered in Wellington at this year's Wellington Conference on Contemporary China to debate what has been driving rapid economic development and social change in China. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Hon Bill English opened the conference, with a keynote speech, addressing primarily the issue of foreign direct investment in New Zealand. 
The China Centre; in association with Business NZ; NZ China Trade Association; Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT); NZ Trade and Enterprise (NZTE), hosted a symposium, "the Opening Doors to China," exploring what the NZ Inc strategy means for businesses and other key stakeholders in New Zealand.
The China Centre and the New Zealand China Trade Association and New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre joined hands again this year held the second China Business Symposium on 1st March, 2012. This year, this annual symposium explored successful branding and channel management in China, a key issue in doing business in China.
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 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.
Dr Jason Young, research associate of the Centre, leads a research project investigating trends and issues in trade and investment between China and New Zealand. This working paper, first out of the research project, compares foreign investment in rural China by New Zealand‘s dairy co-operative Fonterra with Chinese investment in New Zealand‘s dairy industry by Chinese companies Bright Dairy and Shanghai Pengxin, and argues these investments represent new trends in the China-New Zealand relationship and identifies a series of challenges and implications to investing in the economic integration of China and New Zealand.