The Prime Minister, the Trade and Investment Minister, the Tourism and International Education Minister, the premiers of Queensland and Tasmania, and the star of the trade trifecta Andrew Robb, now "trade envoy", are all trooping around China next week.
It's terrific that they're coming to the country. Nowhere esteems political leadership more highly than a one-party communist state. If our governments didn't demonstrate their desire to develop close links with China, the drive couldn't acceptably come from anywhere else. 
Now the focus is able to move on to the business front, where the action is happening - or needs to be.
Negotiating the free-trade agreement was tough enough. It took 10 years. Getting it ratified also proved unexpectedly challenging. It took some rare concessions by both the Coalition government and Labor to conclude the painful legislative stage despite some sinophobic opposition, especially from a few unions led by the CFMEU.
But almost four months after it came into effect, the FTA action is only just getting going.
In China, and in Asia more broadly, the legal paradigm, the focus on the contract itself, isn't yet uppermost. Signing a deal is widely viewed here as just the beginning of the process, the introductory email or letter. Then comes the business of getting to know each other for real, and working towards mutual benefit.
Some in Australia - who may have imagined that concluding the FTA ended the need for big set pieces in the relationship - may be surprised that the delegation leaving this weekend for the second Australia Week In China is the biggest ever business group to travel overseas.
But this spurt in enthusiasm is actually coming just at the right time, it is very welcome news for people at work in the China -markets.
It underlines, to Chinese political leaders, traders, investors, even some consumers, that many Australians are highly motivated to build even better links.
The greatest value from such mass events should go to the businesses that get involved. Many of the more than 1000 people flying to China work for - or own themselves - small and medium sized companies. They may not have had extensive previous involvement with China. They need to be here, to meet Chinese counterparts and consumers, to see for themselves how things are run here.
Australia's largest companies should by now have worked out for themselves how best to place themselves to seize maximum advantage from China's markets and investors. It's great for them, as flag-carriers, to get involved in events like next week's.
But the principal beneficiaries are those who are newer to the game. Those are the players Austrade, the ultimate organiser of Australia Week In China - now a two-yearly event - is principally designed to help. It has attributed to the previous Australia Week more than $1 billion export sales and more than $3bn in investment, chiefly from China into Australia.
Such figures are always highly malleable and debatable. The most important results are relationships that will bear fruit in terms of profit and employment for many years.
It's the same for the FTA itself. It doesn't really affect overnight the big-ticket items in our trade, especially of resources. But the initial, highly encouraging, figures from the first six months of the other north Asian FTAs, with South Korea and Japan, indicate that many Australian firms, especially in agribusiness, have got off to a flying start in seizing the fresh opportunities - and it's substantially in the SME sector that jobs growth will result, the key to benefiting the broader economy and society.
Trade and Industry Minister Steve Ciobo told The Australian that the government's prime task had been to bring the FTA negotiation to a successful conclusion. "The exciting thing now is to see that business is eager to capitalise on these new opportunities, we've got real traction from the business community for this week in China," including now in services, the fastest expanding area of the relationship.
He said that besides welcoming continued Chinese investment in Australia, he would "love to see additional Australian investment in China, for example in the aged care sector - in which ChAFTA provides us a material advantage over other nations. We are very good at this niche, which is of course a very large and growing sector in China" following its 35 years of a one-child policy.
The delegates will spend two to three days at the start of their week in China, participating in one of eight sectoral programs around the country.
These cover agribusiness, international education, financial services, health and aged care, innovation, food and beverage, tourism, and urban sustainability and water management.
There's no doubt that economic engagement is the driver of the relationship with China. But there's a lot else happening out there today, so much that even tensions over strategic issues, lapses of judgment by leaders, the occasional scandal, won't stop the larger process that is under way.
Since I have returned to working in China - only a few weeks - this has been underscored by some of the people I have encountered, the remarkable activities under way.In the exquisite, ancient canal city of Suzhou, for instance, the energetic David Loader organised his second ambitious conference on engagement with China and Asia for some of Australia's most influential high school heads and other educationists. The latest Australian Writers Week in China brought famous authors to read from their works and talk books to enthusiastic audiences. And a small group of Melbourne professors in psychiatry, brought together through the Asialink umbrella, have been signing in Beijing new accords to deepen a profoundly important relationship with China's mental health practitioners dating back a dozen years.