The big event in China on Thursday for the visiting Tauranga delegation is the re-signing of the Tauranga/Yantai sister cities relationship.
The Tauranga delegation wrapped up at the Expo pavilion in Shanghai this week and flew to Yantai on Tuesday.

Mayor Stuart Crosby says the China trip is proving beneficial.

Yantai is about 800km north of Shanghai on the end of the Shandong Peninsula in the Yellow Sea.
It's still hot, but not quite as humid, says Mayor Stuart Crosby.
"It's clear and at 8.30am it's heading for 31 degrees, but the humidity is not so bad as Shanghai," says Stuart.
"It looks very similar to Tauranga harbour."
In Yantai the Tauranga delegation is signing an updated memorandum of understanding with Yantai.
"There will be a bit more detail on outcomes, and be tighter, more specific - what the relationship is from a business point of view," says Stuart.
"Yvonne Tatton worked on the details of that most of last night and we are signing that this evening."
The Tauranga and Opotiki delegations arrived in Yantai on Tuesday, with Wednesday being their first full day of business
The Tauranga delegation began official business on Wednesday with the Yantai Investment and Development Bureau, following which they split into interest groups for different destinations.
The Pingar group met with the director of the Yantai English Language Training College. Pingar is a Tauranga developed Chinese language web search engine.
Priority One chief executive officer Andrew Coker and Tauranga City Councillor Bill Faulkner were again checking the marine scene.
"They are heading off to a marine precinct which is quite relevant to what we are looking at developing for the harbour city marine precinct in Tauranga," says Stuart.
The Opotiki delegation also travelled to Yantai and on arrival headed offshore to inspect marine farms.
Some of the Export BOP and Zespri people were visiting a Yantai water bottling plant, and were planning to investigate a local Yantai supermarket to get a feel for what the end product should look like on the local market.
"There's just two and a half days in Yantai, and that's really the end of the official business," says Stuart
Some are flying home, some like Stuart have paid their own fares for a week in Beijing.