<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/anthony-albanese" rel="" target="_blank" title="Anthony Albanese"><span>Anthony Albanese</span></a><span> has touched down in Shanghai to kick off a week-long diplomatic visit to China, where the prime minister hopes to strengthen ties with Australia's biggest trading partner.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The agenda of the PM's second official China trip will include a sit-down with President Xi Jinping and spruiking a new advertising campaign to lure Chinese visitors Down Under.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Albanese is scheduled to meet Xi later in the week in Beijing.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/trump-announces-30-tariffs-against-eu-mexico-to-begin-aug-1-rattling-major-us-trading-partners/e4dfbf95-fa37-4d42-964c-3a6e2e79ed17" rel="" target="_blank" title="Trump 'blows up rules' and hands down new tariffs"><strong><span>Trump 'blows up rules' and hands down new tariffs</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Alongside tourism and sporting ties with China, regional security and the volatile US market is expected to be on the agenda.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Nationals leader David Littleproud told </span><em><span>Today</span></em><span> he hoped Albanese was ready to broach the "tough" topics with the president while in China.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Foreign Minister Penny Wong earlier raised issues with her Chinese counterpart about the People's Liberation Army (Navy) flotilla of warships that circumnavigated Australia earlier in the year and carried out live-fire exercises in the Tasman Sea.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/prime-minister-anthony-albanese-in-china-updates/82c02eb0-147f-4ef2-b96b-8754cde5081d" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>This is anticipated to be a key subject of conversation between Albanese and Xi.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It's important that he's prepared to have the tough conversations when you've got his foreign minister raising the alarm bell about the strategic threat that China poses to Australia," Littleproud said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"You have to be able to be prepared to have those conversations."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/wantirna-south-second-person-dies-after-pedestrians-struck-by-car/a81ab8c6-eeb1-4a2c-ae80-309454915bd9" rel="" target="_blank" title="Second person dies after car hits pedestrians at Melbourne playground"><strong><span>Second person dies after car hits pedestrians at Melbourne playground</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/carolina-wilga--how-german-backpacker-survived-in-wa-outback-and-woman-who-rescued-her/2e86410d-1644-4aa3-b1a7-91e403d571a4" target="_blank" title="Woman who found missing backpacker reflects on miracle moment"><strong><span>Woman who found missing backpacker reflects on miracle moment</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The federal government is hoping to bring thousands more Chinese tourists to Australia, where visitor numbers have failed to return to pre-pandemic levels.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A new tourism advertisement is set to be released as part of Tourism Australia's "Come and Say G'day" campaign.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The PM will preside over a new agreement between Tourism Australia and Trip.com during his stay in China.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It's a great honour to represent Australia in international forums and this is an important engagement we will have here," Albanese said upon arrival in Shanghai.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The fact that I'm leading a large business delegation speaks to the importance of the economic relationship between Australia and China."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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