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Speaker 1: Bary, so basing your political correspondence with us.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Barry, good afternoon, Heathery.

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Speaker 1: When was the last time we made such a big

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Speaker 1: fuss of a visiting international leader. There's a lot of

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Speaker 1: pomp and ceremony, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: There was a lot of pomp and seramony. You can

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Speaker 2: hear it in the background there. I ran a tape

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Speaker 2: over it and watched the ceremony and fortunately the rain

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Speaker 2: didn't come down and Wellington, the wind was there was

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Speaker 2: on the front lawn of the government house. There was

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Speaker 2: a lot of moldy involvement, and you know the last time,

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Speaker 2: Goodness only knows.

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Speaker 1: I haven't even given it the full rundown. There was

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Speaker 1: also a guard of honor for him to inspect and

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Speaker 1: a gun salute from Point Journingham.

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Speaker 2: But you would expect that. Well not the gun salute

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Speaker 2: was a bit surprising. But you've got to remember, sons. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: this man is extraordinarily influential in the Chinese government. I

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Speaker 2: mean he's second in the ranks of the Communist Party

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Speaker 2: in China behind the Secretary General Secretary who of course

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Speaker 2: as the president, Jijingping. He was here. I remember back

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Speaker 2: in twenty and fourteen and he had a similar sort

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Speaker 2: of ceremony. But for the current man, it makes him

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Speaker 2: part of the loyalist inner circle of the Chinese Communist Party.

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Speaker 2: He's also the head of government in China. So what

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Speaker 2: this guy says goes here's a big deal. There were

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Speaker 2: protesters out of his hotel, pro Chinese protesters, anti Chinese protesters.

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Speaker 2: Apparently that quind a bit volatile. We haven't had any

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Speaker 2: of the so called announcements that we're expecting from this visit. They'll,

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Speaker 2: no doubt come tomorrow. They will have been written a

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Speaker 2: few weeks ago. He'll go to dinner at Premier House tonight.

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Speaker 2: I hope they've got rid of the rodents there. And

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Speaker 2: one person who isn't there in terms of residing in

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Speaker 2: it as Chris Lux and he still resides down the

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Speaker 2: road at his apartment, not very far away at all, but.

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Speaker 1: He will be at that dinner's night.

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Speaker 2: Wony Oh. Absolutely. And you know this country to New Zealand,

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Speaker 2: it's a forty billion dollar two way trade been growing

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Speaker 2: ever since that free trade agreement was signed back in

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Speaker 2: two thousand and eight. I was up in Beijing for it.

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Speaker 2: I was also there with Jasin da Dern who made

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Speaker 2: less than twenty four hour visit to China. I don't

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Speaker 2: think the Chinese would have been terribly impressed with that.

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Speaker 1: How long is this reduction of the speed limits going

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Speaker 1: to take before they actually are reduced?

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Speaker 2: Well, I haven't said that. They said lifted, Yeah exactly.

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Speaker 2: They said that they'll essentially they're setting up a public

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Speaker 2: consultation and the documents gone out today. They'll be putting

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Speaker 2: in place the review and the timing of it. But

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Speaker 2: you know, as we know, during the last labor government,

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Speaker 2: speed signs went up all over the place. There was

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Speaker 2: no consultation at all. And I know that driving to

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Speaker 2: the Coromandel is they call it a ninety kilometers safe

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Speaker 2: zone area now that when you turn off the Auckland

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Speaker 2: Motorway it goes on for some considerable time. What wouldn't

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Speaker 2: be a high crash area because it's a pretty straight road.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully that sort of nonsense will be gone. Also, the

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Speaker 2: speed limits that have been put in many cities around

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Speaker 2: New Zealand because people don't quite understand. Okay, it's safety,

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Speaker 2: but people don't quite understand you slow down traffic, you

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Speaker 2: slow down the economy because you slow down deliveries of goods.

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Speaker 2: You slow down.

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Speaker 1: You base ladies can't get place as fast everything, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, everything has slowed down, and that what was done,

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Speaker 2: and that's what was done. And David Seymour, for one,

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Speaker 2: because he's part of that, he's the regulation review. He

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Speaker 2: said the scatter gun restrictions based on nanny state ideology,

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Speaker 2: not not evidence, are totally depressing. So they've tackled that

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Speaker 2: one and they're going to do it full on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, what are the farmers farmer announcements?

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Speaker 2: Well, i'll tell you what. The old farmers down at

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Speaker 2: the AGG day in Hamilton, the National Agricultural Meet there

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Speaker 2: the day before yesterday they were told they won't be

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Speaker 2: facing greenhouse gases from next year. Yesterday they were told

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Speaker 2: that a Parliamentary select committee would be looking at the

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Speaker 2: banking sector with particular reference on the rural sector. Today

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Speaker 2: they boosted rural support trusts to assist struggling farmers. Now

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Speaker 2: these are trusts that have been set up around the country.

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Speaker 2: If a farmer is struggling, he doesn't get money, but

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Speaker 2: he gets good advice from these trusts. So money is

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Speaker 2: going and more money is going into that. And finally

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Speaker 2: today they announced a regulatory sector review to basically remove

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Speaker 2: the ridiculous red tape from agriculture and horticultural products. Now,

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Speaker 2: some people say it might say, well, what does that mean, Well,

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Speaker 2: it means that at the moment, we don't have access

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Speaker 2: to product that makes animals methane a bit slower in

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Speaker 2: terms of emitting it, rye grass and developing that technology exactly,

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Speaker 2: so we don't have access to that. There's also science

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Speaker 2: out there that makes vegetable and plants grow faster. We

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Speaker 2: don't have access to that. We are a primary producing country.

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Speaker 2: And I think this red tape it's well and truly

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Speaker 2: beyond the time that it was reviewed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, fair enough, Barry, Thank you. Barry Soper, Senior political correspondent.

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