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Middle-earth meets Middle Kingdom in NZ-China TV deal

(Agencies) Updated: 2014-11-20 07:53

Middle-earth meets Middle Kingdom in NZ-China TV deal

Rotorua, which has been voted as the most beautiful city in New Zealand six times, is famous for its natural beauty. [Photo / China.org.cn]

China and New Zealand are to sign a deal which will make it easier to produce television content in the two countries, enabling the South Pacific island nation to showcase its natural landscape to lure more tourists.

It comes as China's film and television industry faces stiff competition from internet-TV companies, which are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on foreign programming to attract users and advertisers.

Industry experts expect increased exposure of New Zealand's rolling pastures and craggy ranges featured in the hugely successful Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films will boost the country's Chinese tourism industry, which totalled $683 million in the year ended in May.

"New Zealand's landscape and scenery are a big draw for Chinese," said Henry Chung, associate professor of marketing at Massey University who specialises in China-related issues.

"Even just one shot of the New Zealand landscape on television, that's worth a lot."

In the past year, it was worth around 250,000 Chinese visitors to New Zealand, a tiny country with a population of 4.5 million which is recognised for its natural environment and dairy products, a far cry from China's growing urban sprawl.

The number of visitors has tripled since 2002, the year that the first of the Lord of the Rings films was released in China, and continues to grow at a rate of more than 15 percent a year.

Related: President Xi arrives in New Zealand for state visit

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived on Wednesday evening in Auckland, New Zealand, starting his state visit to the country.

At the invitation of New Zealand Governor-General Jerry Mateparae and Prime Minister John Key, Xi began his first state visit to New Zealand after he took office as president last year.

Upon his arrival, the Chinese president extended sincere greetings and good wishes to New Zealand people.

Since the establishment of diplomatic ties 42 years ago, China-New Zealand relations have achieved leapfrog development, which brings great benefits to peoples of the two nations and makes contribution to the peace, stability and prosperity of the Asia-Pacific region, Xi said.

Xi said he is looking forward to working with New Zealand leaders and people from all sectors during his visit, in a bid to chart a new blueprint for the future of the bilateral relationship.

Following his state visit to Australia, New Zealand is the second leg of Xi's ongoing visit, which will also take him to Fiji.

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