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New Zealand National Dumpling Day September 26th

It’s New Zealand Chinese Language Week!

 New Zealand Chinese Language Week is on now. It’s a great opportunity to try out some phrases and to encourage others to giv...

Heads up — changes to membership are coming

 At the Society’s National Annual General Meeting (AGM) held in Tauranga earlier this year in May, members decided that it wa...
Shanghai skyline by day and Beijing skyline by night

NZCFS Delegations to China – call for expressions of inter...

 With covid travel restrictions lifted and the world travelling once again, the NZ China Friendship Society is planning two outbo...
Front and back cover of INDUSCO General Report written by Rewi Alley in May 1939

The beginnings of INDUSCO

  As many members will know, Rewi Alley travelled to China in 1927 and briefly returned to New Zealand in 1937. While aw...

2023 Chinese Tourism and Culture Week – “Tea and the World...

The China Cultural Centre in Wellington and the Chinese Gansu Intangible Cultural Heritage Group held 'Chinese Tourism and Culture Week - Te...

Gong He Visit, 20 – 24 June

Gong He Visit, 20 – 24 JuneIn early July, the International Committee for the Promotion of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives (ICCIC, also ...
Screen shot of online participants in Dunhuang-Christchurch Cultural Seminar

NZCFS Participates in Dunhuang-Christchurch Cultural Seminar

An online event linking Dunhuang in Gansu province with its sister city Christchurch was an opportunity to celebrate the cultural connection...
National President Chris Lipscombe meeting with Xiamen FAO Vice President Mme Lin Na.

National President Visits Xiamen

 Prior to his arrival at Fuzhou for the China-Pacific People-to-People Friendship Forum in May, National President Chr...
Pacific Island delegation

NZCFS Delegation Attends China Pacific People-to-People Friendsh...

      Chris Lipscombe is National President of the New Zealand China Friendship So...

Obituary – Vale Murray Hoare

Vale Murray Hoare (Auckland and National Executive)It is with great sadness that we report the death of Murray Hoare, a former s...

The Power of Art

Tauranga branch member John Hodgson has for many years been actively involved in building relationships between Jiangxi province, and the ci...