B. New Zealanders' visits to China

The Honourable J. A. Walding, Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Overseas Trade and Environment of New Zealand, visited China from 27 March to 3 April 1973.

Rt. Hon. R. D. Muldoon, Prime Minister of New Zealand, visited China from 28 April to 5 May 1976.

Sir Roy Jack, Speaker of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, visited China from 5 to 18 April 1977.

Rt. Hon. B. E. Talboys, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Overseas Trade, visited China from 25 October to 1 November, 1977.

Rt. Hon. B. E. Talboys, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of New Zealand, visited China in May 1979.

Rt. Hon. Robert David Muldoon, Prime Minister of New Zealand, visited China in September 1980.

Rt. Hon. David Russell Lange, Prime Minister of New Zealand, visited China in March 1986.

Rt. Hon. Geoffrey W. R. Palmer, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice, visited China in March 1987. The two sides signed the Agreement between the Governments of the People's Republic of China and New Zealand on Scientific and Technological Cooperation.

Rt. Hon. Don Mckinnon, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Minister and Trade visited China in April 1992. Premier Li Peng, Vice Premier Zhu Rongji and Foreign Minister Qian Qichen held separate meetings and talks with him.

Rt. Hon. James Brendan Bolger, Prime Minister of New Zealand, visited China in May 1993. President Jiang Zemin and Vice Premier Zhu Rongji held respective meeting and talks with him. Prime Minister Bolger addressed NZ-China Business Forum luncheon hosted by the New Zealand Embassy in Beijing. Vice Premier Li Lanqing attended the luncheon and responsed with a speech..

Rt. Hon. Don McKinnon, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade visited China in July 1995 at the invitation of Vice Premier and Foreign Minister Qian Qichen. Chairman of the National People's Congress, Qiao Shi, met with the visiting Deputy Prime Minister. Vice Premier Zou Jiahua hosted a welcoming banquet for him. Vice Premier and Foreign Minister Qian Qichen held talks with McKinnon.

Rt. Hon. Winston Peters, Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer of New Zealand, visited China in September 1997. Vice Premier Zhu Rongji, Vice President Rong Yiren, and Ismail Amat, State Councilor and Chairman of Nationality Affairs Committee, held separate meetings with Peters.

Rt. Hon. James Brendan Bolger, Prime Minister of New Zealand, visited China in November 1997. Premier Li Peng held talks with Bolger. Vice Premier Zhu Rongji and Chairman of CPPCC Li Ruihuan, held separate meetings with him. Prime Minister Bolger attended the reception hosted by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

Rt. Hon. Winston Peters, Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand, visited China together with Tauranga city's goodwill delegation in February 1998. Chairman of CPPCC Li Ruihuan met with him.

Rt. Hon. Don McKinnon, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, visited China in October 1998. Vice President Hu Jintao, Vice Premier Qian Qichen and State Councilor Wu Yi held separate meetings with him. Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan held talks with his New Zealand counterpart. Both sides agreed to establish a mechanism for annual consultation on regional security at vice ministerial level.

Rt. Hon. Jenny Shipley, Prime Minister of New Zealand, paid a working visit to China in July 1999. President Jiang Zemin, Premier Zhu Rongji and State Councilor Wu Yi held separate meetings and talks with Shipley.

Hon. Jim Sutton, Minister of Trade Negotiations and Minister of Agriculture visited China in March, 2000 at the invitation of Mr. Shi Guangsheng, Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. State Councilor Wu Yi, Mr. Zeng Peiyan, Minister of State Development Planning Commission and Mr. Chen Yao Bang, Minister of Agricultrue held separate meetings with Sutton, and Minister Shi Guangsheng held talks with him.

Hon. Phil Goff, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade visited China in August, 2000 at the invitation of Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan,. During his stay in Beijing, Premier Zhu Rongji met with Goff, and Minister Tang Jiaxuan held a talk with him.

H.E. the Rt. Hon. Sir Michael Hardie Boys, Governor-General of New Zealand, and Lady Hardie Boys paid their first state visit to China at the invitation of President Jiang Zeming from 30 November to 6 December 2000. During his stay in Beijing, President Jiang Zeming and Premier Zhu Rongji held separate meetings with him. He also met with Mr Xiao Yang, President of the Supreme People's Court of China. Hon. Parekura Horomia, Minister of Maori Affairs and Associate Minister of Education, who accompanied Governor-General Boys during the visit, met respectively with Mr. Li De Zhu, Chairman of Nationality Affairs Committee, and Mr Lu Fuyuan, Vice Minister of Education.

Rt. Hon. Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand paid an official visit to China at the invitation of Premier Zhu Rongji in April 2001. During the visit, she called on President Jiang Zemin, and held talks with Premier Zhu. She also met with Wei Jianxing, member of the Standing Committee of Politburo of the CPC Central Committee, and State Councilor Mme. Wu Yi. Besides Beijing, Ms. Clark also visited Shanghai and Hong Kong.

Hon. Phil Goff, Minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand paid a working visit to the Tibet Autonomous Region at the invitation of Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan in May 2001.

Prime Minister Clark and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Goff attended the Shanghai APEC meeting in October. President Jiang Zemin met with Clark, and Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan met with Goff.

Hon. Jim Sutton, Minister of Trade Negotiations leading a delegation of enterpreneurs, paid an official visit to China in March 2002?Mr. Sutton held talks with Mr. Shi Guangsheng, Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation.

As a special envoy of Hon. Jim Sutton, Minister of Trade Negotiations, Mr. Michael Green, deputy Secretary-general of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, paid an official visit to China in October 2002. Mr. Green met with Ma Xiuhong, Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, Zhou Mingwei, Deputy Director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, and Zhou Wenzhong, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Hon. Jim Sutton, Minister of Trade Negotiations leading a delegation of enterpreneurs, visited Guizhou Province, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Yunnan Province in December 2002.