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Communist China became an important purchaser of New Zealand wool in the 1980s. Liu Xiwen, a vice-minister in China’s foreign trade ministry, led a six-man team to New Zealand in 1987, a year in which China was New Zealand’s biggest customer for wool.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)
Reference: EP/1981/3126/9
by Merv Griffiths
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