New Zealand Media: The Chinese in Auckland has increased by 20 years 10 times.

In the 20 years before the 2006 census, the Chinese population in New Zealand increased sevenfold, from 19600 to 147600. In Auckland, the population of Chinese has increased by 10 times, from 10500 to 97400. At present, in some areas of botany, Epsom and New Lynn, more than 30% of the population is from China.

According to China News Network of New Zealand, sociologist Paul Spoonley said that this change in ethnic proportion is a global trend, just like the economic transformation of New Zealand in the same period. "Canada and Australia have almost the same ethnic composition, but there are a large number of Chinese from the beginning." He said. Of course, this ethnic change is also related to China's emergence on the world stage. Twenty years ago, even including Hongkong, China's global output was 2%, ranking 1 1 in the world. Last year, China's global output was 9%. It surpassed Japan to become the second largest economy in the world.

Today, three years after signing a free trade agreement with China, China has surpassed the United States, New Zealand's largest trading partner outside Oceania, in both export and import. China has become New Zealand's largest source of international students and the second largest source of immigrants besides Britain. China is the fourth largest source of tourists to New Zealand.

In some ways, China has a greater influence on New Zealand than any other country outside Asia. Economically, New Zealand's exports to China have increased from less than S $2 billion to S $5 billion annually in the past three years. Meanwhile, Australian exports to China have only doubled.

New Zealand's dairy exports to China increased fourfold, from 400 million yuan to 654.38+0.9 billion yuan. China is currently the biggest customer of New Zealand dairy industry, and also the biggest driver of the recent price increase of dairy industry.

New Zealand's timber exports to China have also increased by about four times. Since 2007, timber export income has increased from 240 million to 654.38+0 billion. Brent Coffey, chairman of the Forestry Alliance, said that most of the exported timber is logs, which is related to the demand of China building materials market.

Due to the economic recession, New Zealand's imports from China did not increase so rapidly, from the previous 5.6 billion yuan to 6.9 billion yuan. Due to the cancellation of most import protection measures in 1980s, some expensive local products were replaced by cheap imported goods from China, and the prices of clothing, shoes and socks, toys and household items in the New Zealand market were also greatly reduced.

Although domestic industrial workers who were once protected by imports lost their jobs and China's imports were controversial, at least in the short term, cheap goods imported from China did improve the living standards of all New Zealanders.

"Before 2007-2008 15 years, the whole world enjoyed low interest rate price stability and sufficient funds, which were brought by China." Economist Srikanta chatterjee said.

Overall, China's foreign investment is only 5.6 billion yuan, accounting for 2% of the total. However, natural dairy, an enterprise in China, had previously offered 65,438+06 for Crafa family dairy farm. Although unsuccessful, it shows that China investors have investment opportunities in finding food and other natural resources.

In the past 10 years, the number of outbound tourists in China has increased fivefold. Last year, 56 million people in China left the country. The number of China tourists visiting Australia and New Zealand has also increased by nearly four times. Last year, the number of tourists to Australia and China reached 454,000, and the number of tourists to China and New Zealand was 6.5438+0.23 million. At present, China is the fourth largest tourist source country in Australia and New Zealand, second only to New Zealand and Australia, Britain and the United States.

China Southern Airlines will bring an additional 25,000 tourists to New Zealand after opening the Guangzhou-Auckland route. China Southern Airlines also flies to Sydney and Melbourne. Last June, 5438+065438+1October, Brisben was added. China Southern plans to have 50 flights to six Australian cities every week before 20 13.