Beef breakthrough as China insists its regional intentions are peaceful

By Mark Kenny National Affairs Editor
Updated March 25 2017 - 12:23am, first published 12:15am
Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Turnbull and Lucy Turnbull welcomed Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China Li Keqiang and Madame Cheng Hong to Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday 23 March 2017. Pool Photo: Andrew Meares  Photo: Andrew Meares
Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Turnbull and Lucy Turnbull welcomed Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China Li Keqiang and Madame Cheng Hong to Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday 23 March 2017. Pool Photo: Andrew Meares Photo: Andrew Meares

Local beef producers have won unfettered entree to the Chinese domestic market for the first time, in a commercial breakthrough that gives Australia a level of access denied to all countries until now.

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