[2] In February 2021, the consulate was affected by a phony bomb threat made by individuals including those with the names of "张卫能 utoyo" and that of “full_discl0sure”, on an Auckland area events website Aucklife that they had taken over via hacking.

[3][4] In late July 2019, the media organisation Newsroom reported that the Vice Consul General Xiao Yewen had lobbied Auckland University of Technology (AUT) into cancelling an event commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Newsroom also reported that the Consulate-General had lobbied AUT and the University of Auckland into dropping the screening of a documentary criticising the Confucius Institutes in 2018.

[6][7] In response, ACT Party leader David Seymour sent a letter to the Consulate-General criticising it for interfering in New Zealand internal affairs.

[9] In response, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying defended the Consulate-General's actions as "fulfilling its duty" and being "beyond reproach."