Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, New Zealand is the second largest country in Oceania after Australia. The country is mainly composed of two large islands in the north and south and a number of small surrounding islands, with a total area of 270,000 square kilometers and a population of about 5.1 million, mainly inhabited by descendants of British colonists and indigenous Maori.
New Zealand can be said to be very "lonely" in the southwest Pacific, and the nearest Australia is also 1600 kilometers away.
Because New Zealand is far from the center of the world and has not been affected by wars, especially two world wars, this has allowed New Zealand to develop its economy with peace of mind. Unlike other developed countries, New Zealand is well developed in agriculture, livestock, forestry, fishing and tourism, but at a modest level of industry.
As a Commonwealth country, new Zealand is still nominally the King of The United Kingdom, but the living standards of the new Zealand people have surpassed that of the British suzerainty.
Because 70% of the population is descended from British colonialists, New Zealand does not differ much from the British in terms of customs and customs, and only some Maori still maintain some primitive etiquette, such as touching each other's noses when greeting each other.
For example, in New Zealand's famous Christchurch, visitors can take the British antique tram, which passes through the city center and most of the city's attractions, and takes the tram to tour the whole city, which is very convenient and economical. New Zealanders can even be described as lazy, with 365 days a year, more than 140 days of various holidays, and an average of one day off every 2 days.
New Zealand's population is less than a quarter of Beijing's, and its highly developed economy makes New Zealanders very prosperous.
For New Zealanders, the most thought-out is how to enjoy life, deal with them and you will find that they are either on holiday or on vacation.
New Zealand also operates an 8-hour workday, but it's rare to see New Zealanders working overtime, and even their shops and restaurants close at the point, which is very different from our Asian countries. Once they leave work, they stop thinking about things at work, and even if they find them, they will tell you to solve business after work.
No one is going to be on call 24 hours a day like people in Northeast Asian countries, so if there's business, it's best to find them before they leave work.
New Zealand provides free education from primary to secondary schools.
Students do not have a lot of pressure to study in school, teachers are more concerned about whether students are happy in school, and the quality of academic performance is secondary. After completing free primary and secondary education, New Zealand students can choose to continue their studies to university, and they will have to pay for it themselves.
New Zealand's famous universities are the University of Auckland, Massey University, Lincoln University, etc., these university degrees have also been recognized by China's educational institutions, we are ready to go overseas students, when choosing to study in New Zealand, you can consider entering the above universities for further study.
In fact, New Zealand's natural resources are not rich, mainly coal, gold, iron ore and oil and natural gas, and there are not many reserves.
New Zealand's economic take-off is to make full use of its advantages in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and by-fisheries. New Zealand is rich in forest resources, with a forest area of 8.1 million hectares, accounting for 30% of the country's land area, and the export of timber and wood products is one of the main projects of New Zealand's export earnings.
About half of the country's land is devoted to livestock, and wool, dairy products, beef and mutton are New Zealand's most important exports.
Agriculture in New Zealand, while highly mechanized, is largely occupied by pastures and forests, making it impossible to achieve self-sufficiency in food and requiring imports from abroad.
In addition, fishery production is also an important source of income for New Zealand, which has the fourth largest exclusive economic zone in the world, and more than 50% of the annual commercial fish and farmed fish and shellfish are exported.
In general, New Zealand is a developed agricultural country, New Zealand's economy is heavily dependent on foreign trade, China is New Zealand's largest trading partner, which is one of the main reasons why New Zealand is not active as a member of Western developed countries when Western developed countries are desperately encircling China.
New Zealand's tourism and catering industry is also very developed, thanks to New Zealand's environmental protection is very in place, tourists from all over the world are happy to go.
In recent years, with a large number of Chinese tourists going abroad, New Zealand has also become an important tourist destination for Chinese tourists.
Before the outbreak of the epidemic, New Zealand received more than 3.7 million foreign tourists a year, most of them from China and the United States. New Zealand's dining styles are diverse, including European, Japanese, Vietnamese and more.
For authentic New Zealand-style cuisine, you can order the most iconic dessert, "Palova", a cake made with cream and fruit, which is said to taste good.
Reservations are required for traditional New Zealand restaurants, especially upscale restaurants, although pub-style dining is becoming popular in big cities and does not require a reservation.
There are more than 900 Asian restaurants in New Zealand alone, and Chinese tourists do not need to worry about eating habits when traveling to New Zealand.
China and New Zealand established diplomatic relations in 1972 and have maintained good bilateral relations since the establishment of diplomatic relations.
In the 1990s, as China's economy began to grow explosively, bilateral trade grew very fast. Throughout the 1990s, bilateral trade grew at an average annual rate of 12 percent. In the WTO accession negotiations, New Zealand took the lead in reaching an agreement with China on bilateral market access, and was the first to formally recognize China's full market economy status. New Zealand was also the first among Western countries to respond after China proposed the Belt and Road Initiative and upgraded its free trade agreement with China.
However, New Zealand is a member of the Five Eyes Alliance, and its main ethnic group is of British descent, which is in the same blood as the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Australia.
The reason why New Zealand did not actively participate in the high-profile encirclement of China by the Western countries led by the United States is because New Zealand is too weak and an agricultural country in terms of comprehensive national strength, and in the Sino-US competition, New Zealand's industry has not been greatly affected.
In addition, China is its largest trading country, it can not offend China thousands of miles away, New Zealand as an island country in the southwest Pacific, like a paradise, in the international political arena almost can not see its figure, and even some forgotten countries.