Ladies
and gentlemen, distinguished guests, ate marie, tena koutou
katoa, good morning.
I am very happy to be here with
you once again at my fourth China Business
Summit.
Thanks again to you, Fran, for being the
driving force behind this event.
As ever, I’m very
pleased to see such a range of speakers and participants -
this reflects the continuing breadth of engagement between
New Zealand and China.
I hardly need to tell this
audience that it’s been yet another year of change and
disruption. But there has of course been progress and cause
for optimism too.