Thank you, colleague.
Mr. Chairman, we are very happy with the direction of our relationship with China. It has really begun to flourish. We've had a number of high-level meetings between our two countries over the last several months and years. We are working on a number of issues. As you know, just recently we were able to announce that China has agreed to reopen the Chinese market to Canadian pork, which is good news for a sector of our economy. We're making progress on a number of other issues.
As my colleague mentioned, we have of course been working for a number of years on getting an ADS agreement. But even without ADS, just last year visits to Canada by Chinese citizens were up over 5%. In fact there are visits to our country from China equal to a full jumbo jet every day. So there's a lot of travel between our countries, and we look forward to that increasing. Our government has just opened two new trade offices in China, and by the end of the year there will be four more