Town planner Zhang Min (28) and his medical publisher wife, Li Jing (27), were chosen to visit New Zealand as part of a newspaper campaign to promote the country before the Shanghai World Expo, which opens next month.
The couple, who were accompanied by a reporter and photographer from the Shanghai Morning Post, visited Rotorua, Queenstown and Dunedin during the trip, their first to New Zealand.
Their experiences, which included holding hands while bungy-jumping and visiting the Dunedin Chinese Garden, will be published in a special Shanghai expo supplement.
The couple said New Zealand had lived up to its marketing, which portrayed it as a beautiful country with a diverse range of adventure activities.
They knew little about Dunedin, but were impressed by its sister city status with Shanghai, saying Dunedin was a gateway from China to New Zealand.
