On March 18, 2024 local time, Prime Minister of New Zealand Christopher Luxon met with visiting Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Wellington.

Wang Yi first conveyed cordial greetings from Chinese leaders to Christopher Luxon. Wang Yi said that since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and New Zealand, the two sides have always adhered to mutual respect and inclusiveness, focusing on cooperation and benefiting the people, and created many "first" records, making China-New Zealand relations have been at the forefront of China's relations with developed countries, and becoming a precious treasure for both sides to cherish and carry forward. This year marks the 10th anniversary of President Xi Jinping's successful visit to New Zealand and the establishment of the China-New Zealand comprehensive strategic partnership. China regards New Zealand as a rational and mature cooperative partner, and China-New Zealand relations are strategic and long-term in nature. China is willing to work with New Zealand to take the opportunity of celebrating the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries to carry forward the tradition of "striving to be the first", surpass new benchmarks, forge an upgraded comprehensive strategic partnership and build a state-to-state relationship seeking harmony without uniformity, which will not only benefit the two peoples, but also make new contributions to global peace and development.

Wang Yi said, New Zealand takes education, technological innovation, infrastructure, business environment and export expansion as its policy priorities, and China is willing to be a reliable strategic cooperative partner of New Zealand in these areas. China welcomes New Zealand's continued participation in the Belt and Road cooperation. China looks forward to working with New Zealand to explore new growth areas of cooperation such as science and technology, green development and innovation while consolidating and strengthening cooperation in traditional areas. China's economy has not only achieved reasonable growth in quantity, but also promoted effective improvement in quality; it enjoys both a solid foundation and a broad space for growth, which will continue to inject more impetus into the world economy and will bring more and new opportunities to New Zealand. Both China and New Zealand advocate multilateralism, support the United Nations in playing a core role in international affairs, and are committed to resolving international disputes by peaceful means. China is ready to work with New Zealand to strengthen solidarity and cooperation, resist the Cold War mentality, unilateralism and protectionism, oppose turning back the wheel of history, and safeguard the right direction of human progress.

Luxon asked Wang Yi to convey his sincere greetings to Chinese leaders. Luxon said that New Zealand-China relations are very important. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between New Zealand and China, bilateral relations have achieved strong development, and economic and trade cooperation has yielded fruitful results. The comprehensive strategic partnership between New Zealand and China has provided an important driving force for bilateral cooperation. New Zealand will continue to adhere to the one-China policy, and is willing to take the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the New Zealand-China comprehensive strategic partnership as an opportunity to further strengthen high-level exchanges with China, enhance mutual understanding, deepen cooperation in areas including economy and trade, people-to-people and cultural exchanges, education, tourism, agriculture, technology and climate response, promote the common prosperity of the two countries and safeguard regional and world peace and stability.

On the same day, Wang Yi also held talks with New Zealand's Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters and met with New Zealand's Minister for Trade Todd McClay.