What does New Zealand hope to contribute to the initiative?

We currently have a three-way project between New Zealand, China and the Cook Islands on water quality and water supply in the Cook Islands. We are taking New Zealand and Chinese expertise and skills and connecting them with a need in a Pacific country for the supply of clean drinking water. If I look ahead and think about the connection between the Belt and Road Initiative and New Zealand and the South Pacific, I would imagine it would probably be in a similar sort of vein, whereby you would bring together New Zealand expertise, Chinese expertise and the needs or the requirements of the South Pacific countries and undertake or develop a project.

The Belt and Road Initiative could add a layer which doesn’t exist now, it can possibly link, say, a New Zealand company which is expert in environmental management with a Chinese business which may be looking at potential for that sort of work in Central Asia and then they go together in Central Asia and do something there. Thinking laterally, there are the possibilities that might be created by this initiative. If