On Friday,Mr Turnbull will follow up with another one-on-one meeting,this time with President Xi Jinping,making for a total of almost four hours of talks with the Chinese leadership.

Before landing in Beijing,Mr Turnbull used a key speech in the nation's financial capital,Shanghai,to encourage greater tourism between the two nations,and to call on the Communist leadership to grant greater freedoms and develop a stronger rule of law independent of political interference.

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