Premier of the People's Republic of China Li Qiang will visit Australia this weekend for the first time since 2017, in what is regarded as a key step in a reset of relations between Canberra and Beijing.
His visit comes four years after China hit Australian industries with trade sanctions as ties between the two nations slumped to a new low in response to the then Coalition government calling for an inquiry into the origins of COVID-19.
The lost trade for Australian exports was worth an estimated $20 billion, but Beijing's campaign of economic coercion eased two years ago with the election of the Albanese government. Here is a look out how some of the affected industries fared.
Australian wine producers were left high and dry when China imposed sky-high tariffs, with shipments of upmarket red wines particularly hit hard.
Australia provided almost 40 per cent of China's imported wine and was a market worth $1.24 billion a year to exporters before tariffs all but ended the trade in 2020.
But since China removed the tariffs in April, $86 million of wine had been exported to what was once the largest export market for Australian vineries, Trade Minister Don Farrell said this week.
That was more Australian wine than was sold to China in the preceding three years.
From May 2020, Australian beef producers were blacklisted by China, with officials citing biosecurity reasons.
On being locked out of the lucrative Chinese market, the Australian cattle industry looked to ramp up shipments to other nations such as the United States, Korea and Japan. But the volumes could not completely replace the lost buyers.
To date, eight Australian beef processors have now had suspensions lifted, while two remain suspended.
The industry is now more than $11.5 billion better off, the federal government says.
Before the pandemic hit, tourists from China accounted for almost a third of all travellers into Australia and they were by far the biggest spenders, generously opening their wallets at cities and tourist hot spots from coast-to-coast.
In 2019, 1.4 million Chinese tourists spent a whopping $12.2 billion - more than one quarter of the entire international tourism spend. But with the introduction of COVID-19 border restrictions, that figure fell off a cliff.
And attracting Chinese visitors remains a challenge for the Australian tourist industry, with many choosing to take a holiday closer to home in places such as Thailand.
Live lobster exports remain the final Australian industry under Chinese trade sanctions.
There have been no direct live lobster exports from Australia to China since 2020, when a $2 million shipment was stuck on the Shanghai tarmac after China's customs agency claimed the lobsters were contaminated.
The rock lobster industry in South Australia alone employs about 1000 full-time staff providing major flow-on benefits to the state's economy.
Hopes are high the ban will be lifted after the visit of the Chinese Premier to Australia.
China imposed an 80.5 per cent combined tariff on Australian barley exports in May 2020 and the federal government later hit back by taking the case to the global trade umpire, the WTO.
Australian farmers were successful in finding alternative markets in the Middle East for their crops.
Last year, after the Australian government announced it was dropping its WTO case, China lifted the punitive tariffs.
Barley exports to China have since soared with the resumption of exports.
Before the pandemic and the freeze in relations with Beijing, educational institutions in Australia had some of the biggest numbers of Chinese students in the world, worth billions of dollars.
But border restrictions introduced to combat the spread of COVID-19 resulted in numbers to drop sharply.
The drop-off in Chinese students numbers has also triggered a wider debate in government and the education sector about the reliance on international students for funding Australian universities and colleges.
About 20 per cent of Australian coal exports went to China in 2019, but that dwindled in the following years with the imposition of trade sanctions.
But producers were easily able to find new markets in Europe and Japan when the Ukraine war erupted in February 2022 and caused a global energy crisis.
Beijing lifted the restrictions on Australian coal shipments last January as ties between Canberra and Beijing gradually warmed.