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Co-founder of Nuandao Natasia Guo says “I find Beijing is a hub for all creatives from all over the world and also different parts of China as well.”

 
by Henry Acland, Guo Xinfeng
 
BEIJING, June 30, 2012, (Xinhua)
 
China is restructuring its dairy sector amid tainted-milk scandals, but producing significantly more milk domestically is expected to put colossal strains on the country's resources.
 
To meet a growing appetite for quality dairy products, the country's fast-growing but fragmented sector faces many challenges, such as a shortage of high-caliber dairy workers, according to dairy companies and insiders.
 

by Henry Acland
 
BEIJING, June 29, 2011, (Xinhua) -- Cloud computing is capturing the imagination of business executives worldwide as being a less expensive and more effective way of managing data, and China is investing big in the technology as the government transforms the economy from relying heavily on manufacturing to delivering quality services.
 

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6th February 2010 Beijing-based Henry Acland reports on significant interest from China in innovative, efficient and safe methods of food production in New Zealand. "Developing New Zealand’s knowledge economy does not require wholesale reinvention, but rather building on our already innovative agriculture sector and raising our levels of expertise in food production," he explains.

20th October 2009
 
"[...] a US$ 41 billion deal to allow China to buy liquefied natural gas from a Western Australian gas field should have been cause to celebrate. The deal, between Chinese state-controlled PetroChina and ExxonMobil, is Australia’s biggest ever trade contract by value. Yet despite the deal’s significance, it was reportedly signed in a secret location in Beijing and without media present. Better just to get on with business without having too much involvement from Australian politicians or the public."
 

14 September 2009

New Zealand’s relationship with China is developing differently to Australia’s. The Rio Tinto saga and the fall-out over Rebiya Kadeer’s recent visit to Australia, has made it absolutely clear that Australia’s relationship with China is all but easy. New Zealand’s relationship on the other hand, although not exactly straightforward either, is currently in much better shape.

Henry Acland, Radio New Zealand, 31st May 2009
 
Radio New Zealand reporter Chris Bramwell interviews Beijing-based Henry Acland regarding advice for NZ companies considering setting-up and selling products in China. The Insight programme that the interview is part of, investigates how the impact of the recession on China might affect trade with NZ. Henry talks about the difficulties NZ companies face when trying to get a foothold in China.
 

Henry Acland, Asia: NZ Online, 26th May 2009
 
The Chinese economy is changing as Beijing attempts to lessen the worst effects of the crisis. It is using the stimulus package to spur domestic demand and also as a catalyst to change how its economy expands in the long run. In recent months, China’s GDP growth has weakened but domestic consumption has not. New Zealand exporters are gaining from increased spending by Chinese consumers coinciding with favourable trading conditions.
 

 
China will be New Zealand’s second largest export partner by 2015, if the trends over the last eight years continue. Since 2001 New Zealand exports to China have grown at around 15 percent a year. Exports to United States and Japan, currently the country’s second and third largest export partners respectively, have not grown as greatly in that same period [I will include a graph].