have more than 30 government-to-government dialogues and other mechanisms where we discuss the many and varied aspects of our relationship with our largest trading partner. These generally work well and add value and depth to the understanding we have of each other, and contribute to the outcomes we both seek to achieve. What we are now seeking to do is overlay those existing arrangements with a framework which will give us greater high-level direction for our political, strategic, economic and financial relationship. On the economic front, the White Paper expects an average annual real economic growth rate in China of seven per cent between this year and 2025. This is the pace of growth that leads to a doubling of China's economic size every decade or so. In the defence sphere, we seek to deepen our cooperative relationship; already we have around 60 separate individual defence-related activities each year with China. By way of example: - the Australian Defence Force and the PLA, along with the New Zealand Defence Force, are today, as we speak, in the middle of our second humanitarian assistance and disaster relief joint exercise in Brisbane, Australia. This follows on from the first of these held in Chengdu in November 2011; - following HMAS Ballarat's visit to Shanghai in May this year, which included what is termed a naval "passage exercise" with a Chinese frigate, we will shortly welcome to Australia three PLA-Navy ships for a reciprocal visit as they return from anti-piracy operations in the