Give you three seconds and imagine you're in Africa.
That's itWearing a robe, he sat side by side with the local soil king, being a glamorous chieftain and accepting the worship of the people;
Liu Zhiyong, a Chinese, served as the chief and took a photo with the local soil king. orSurrounded by everyone at the front, holding hands with **, talking and laughing, and inspecting local construction projects together?
StillAs a small leader, a loudspeaker can pull up a team and let a large group of African brothers work obediently?
Chinese Kong Tao and the Secretary-General of the Nigerian Capital Territory Department inspected the Abuja City Railway Project. What? Do the Chinese have such a high status in Africa? Or is there any special background to these people? Not really. Don't say that you are an entrepreneur, even if you are an ordinary worker, you can still be a "master" in Africa. After all, young Chinese people have always had the desire to pursue success, from the former promotion to the current involvement in leading enterprises, never stopping. In the past few years, the humble Chinese migrant workers in China have not had a good time, and even if they are involved in Zhou Zhou 996 in a large factory, they will be hurt by layoffs and lose their dignity. If you want to pursue a more relaxed work and life, you might as well choose this new way out of Africa. From a small trader to a tycoon, from a worker to a funder, from a project manager to a local chief, he spent a lot of ......money in high-end shops and restaurantsSuch legends are being staged in Africa in large numbers. This may be one of the few Chinese who have the opportunity to make a quick leap into the ranks. In Africa, every ordinary Chinese can find a place to show their strength. If you're a small boss with a little money, Africa has huge infrastructure needs and plenty of untapped resources to invest in. When your factory is up and running, and you have made an outstanding contribution to local employment and the economy, it is not difficult to be a chief. Of course, not this kind of fake chieftain who paints his whole body black.
Deng Chao in the movie "Breakup Master" pretended to be a Mauritian.
Rather, it is the true chief of this Chinese face. For example, Gan Jiaxuan, a native of Wenling, Zhejiang, who is engaged in a wood finishing business in Nigeria, was canonized as a chief by the local king in 2019, and he is still hereditary for life. Who would have thought that this young man only sold mobile phone cards at a street stall when he was in China.
Gan Jiaxuan at the ceremony of being named a chief. **When the Zhejiang guy was still selling mobile phone cards in Beijing, he heard a lot of overseas market intelligence because of his good foreign language, and then took Nigeria as the "base camp" of overseas business. Chinese doing business in Africa is a typical seller's market, and he mentioned in his own report that as soon as the Chinese-made mobile phone was taken, it was immediately "robbed" by customers. On several occasions, when I was returning from a domestic shipment, customers were waiting for me at the airport in Nigeria: I was carrying my mobile phone and they were carrying bags of banknotes. As soon as I got out of the customs, a group of people came up with a "bang", this one holding you, and the other carrying the arm: "This is my money ......."This is my ......Give it to me first, give me ...... firstHe did not harvest the African people purely, but helped the Africans sell the mahogany to China, so that the value of the "worthless" wood growing in the primeval forest skyrocketed. At the time of voting, he won the full vote of 27 people from the king and other chiefs for his business planning and contribution to the local society.
The benefits of being a Chinese sheikh in Africa,The first one is, "According to the rules, you can marry three or four wives." Local authorities told him. Of course, the Chinese do not dare to consume this blessing, and there are other "blessings".At the coronation ceremony of more than 1,000 people, Gan Jiaxuan had his own fief and exclusive car license plate, and he was exempted from inspection and exemption from inspection when he met checkpoints on the road, and some people said that ordinary people would kneel and bow when they saw it.
If you don't have the money to invest, then you can work in a Chinese company in Africa, get the recognition of the locals, and become a chief. The buddy we saw at the beginning, he is Liu Zhiyong, the manager of CIMC, who is in charge of the LPG spherical tank project in Nigeria. This young man deserves to come from China, a society of human relations, and when he arrives in Nigeria, he first visits the local chiefs and official institutions. Even if there was no shortage of people on the construction site, he would sell his face to the chief, hire his residents to do some basic work, and help solve the employment problems of the residents. Knowing that the locals like to have weekend parties, he invited the local residents to visit the construction site and have a Chinese food party. With the cooperation of the locals, "the project that took two years to complete was completed in seven months and delivered in 12 months." Liu Zhiyong said. It is this heart-to-heart exchange that has earned him the title of "Honorary Chieftain" twice, in 2018 and 2021.
The local emperor and residents held a traditional and grand sealing ceremony for Liu Zhiyong. In addition to the above two, there are scholars who have statisticsThere are currently 24 Chinese faces who have served as chiefs in AfricaIncluding Kong Tao from Henan, Lai Jianfeng from Taizhou, Zhang Guangyu from Shaoxing, and Fang Yibo ......from ShandongIt doesn't matter if you don't be a chief, you can be an ordinary manager in Africa. For example, the following manager has done a good job: speaking a confident Henan dialect English, which is everyone's joke in China, and it is the main points that employees take seriously one by one at the African meeting. Otherwise, if you change it, do you dare to laugh at the boss's accent?
In Africa, even if you are not a leader, you can earn a high salary that is the envy of the locals as a cook or a tony teacher. In Africa, Chinese restaurants and barber shops are high-end consumption places, mainly serving Chinese. Because there is a large group of Chinese migrant workers hereWith a high salary as an expatriate, he longs to find a taste of his hometown in a Chinese restaurant, and he also wants to get a "normal" haircut in a Chinese barbershop. After all, Africa's native cooking techniques and ingredients are quite monotonous, and the "West Malaysia" made of cornmeal batter can last a day, just like ......this
*: Internet so if you are a Chinese chef, you can make a lot of money doing Chinese business. Like this young man named Wang Luping, he opened a Chinese restaurant called "Great Wall" in Morocco, making home-cooked Sichuan dishes such as boiled fish, hot and sour shredded potatoes, mapo tofu, etc., and earned 100,000 yuan a month in half a year after opening, which is more than ten times the salary of local workers. The popularity of his Chinese restaurant even attracted African brothers to learn Chinese from him, just to make more rich Chinese friends.
*: China News NetworkIf you are a Tony teacher from China, you are also a scarce skilled talent. After all, the local black hair curls, the local barber will only shave the head, and the ordinary washing, cutting and blowing belong to the advanced technique of the Chinese barber, which costs 200 yuan.
If you have a local complex, you can go to Africa to open a farm and farm. For example, Li Xiaoyun, a professor at China Agricultural University, has directly tripled the yield of corn per mu in Tanzania. The professor did not use any high technology, so he made local improvements to the intercropping and crop rotation that we are familiar with, and taught it to the local residents. Before that, the local villagers scattered the seeds in the ground and left it alone, and this skill passed down by our ancestors was enough for them to double their harvest.
Professor Li Xiaoyun exchanged views with Tanzanian villagers. **Beijing News: Cooking, haircuts, farming, these hardest jobs in the eyes of Chinese, are so popular in Africa. And at the same level, they are not top in the domestic industry, but they have lived at the top level in Africa. No wonder some people say: in China you are just an individual, in Africa you are a talent! Unconsciously,The end of China's college graduates has changed from within the system to Africa. In 2023, the number of fresh graduates from Chinese universities will reach a new high, reaching 11.58 million, and Africa has become one of the ways out for graduates when the Internet, finance, real estate and other "big players" that absorb jobs no longer seek to expand. In July 2023, the topic Would you consider expatriate to Africa with an annual salary of 200,000 yuan appeared on Weibo's hot search, and in a poll with 200,000 people, 580,000 people chose "yes".
There is also a direct suggestion that "young people may wish to go to Africa for employment".
*: An overseas recruit** staff member on Weibo revealed in an interview that the proportion of fresh graduates looking for overseas jobs in 2023 is increasing, and this trend has been slowly rising since 2021, and the performance is particularly prominent in 2023. The ubiquitous cases of getting rich on the Internet have made Africa a "money-making paradise" in the eyes of many young Chinese people who can quickly achieve financial freedom.
*: Xiaohongshu Sohu Sixiang Studio has sorted out the comparison of recruitment salaries in Africa and China, not to mention anything else, just looking at the recruitment salaries of these positions, it is indeed quite attractive. For example, working as a vehicle repairman in Sudan earns 120,000-150,000, but even Beijing in China is only half.
Even if you are a liberal arts student with no hard skills, come here to work as a customer service, with a monthly income of 20,000 yuan, and catch up with the income of domestic programmers in minutes.
Africa's deadly ** is actually far more than just high salaries. Xiao Zhong, a young man from rural Hunan, after graduating from ordinary university, followed a state-owned enterprise to Kenya to do project management, and later traveled to 23 countries in Africa and made a short **. Brave people enjoy the world first" This Internet famous saying is truly fulfilled in Xiao Zhong, he mentioned in his self-report: Many people talk about Africa, always think of "barbarism, danger", but I want to break this stereotype through my **, I went to 23 countries in Africa, and most of the people I met were simple and enthusiastic, and they would take the initiative to greet and chat with youA lot of people may have finished their last meal without a meal, but they are all smiling, and their optimism has deeply influenced me. Africa is worthy of being a short ** bonanza, he photographed African witchcraft, chieftain elections, a jungle market selling crocodiles, and the African version of "Huaqiangbei", with nearly 3.5 million fans on the whole network. Xiao Zhong and his wife's monthly income in Africa adds up to hundreds of thousands, and the 3 million house in Chengdu can be bought.
*: One of his biggest experiences in Africa is:Africa is equal and open, we don't have to fight for parents and connections, as long as we can do things, we have the possibility of changing our destiny. Many people are concerned about how to get to Africa, how to choose a company, whether the place is safe, and so on. Chen Zhuo, a young man who works in Ghana, revealed in an interview:"If it weren't for the locals who saw the black **, I would have thought I was in China. ”He found that Ghana's shopping malls have quite a few Chinese retail brands, and there are also Chinese hot pot restaurants, KTVs, milk tea shops, hotels and so on nearby. He even had pork and green onion buns with northern Chinese flavors and Hu spicy soup, a Henan snack.
The modern supermarket in Africa. Source: InternetMany young people have found a sense of relaxation in Africa that is completely different from that in China. A girl named Xiaoyu is a French major who came to Africa as a Chinese teacher when she was in school, and returned to live in Africa after failing the graduate school entrance examination. For her, the pressure of life in a big city in China made her breathless, and she couldn't bear the trivial and mediocre life when she returned to her hometown and small county, such as her parents' urging to marry. In Africa, she has a lot of free time after eight hours of work, learning to draw, jump rope, change into sleeveless shirts, put on sneakers and play ball with the locals on the beach after work. She said the evening breeze blowing on the banks of the Congo River on a dry African summer day is also beautiful.
Xiaoyu and company colleagues are building a team. **The Internet is also a job, but the young Chinese people in Africa live a completely different state. We may be working to live at home, but they find life at work! Africa today is a bit like China in the 90s, a land that is full of vitality and waiting to explode. Africa has a huge demographic dividend and resource advantages, and Africa is like a new continent when the rest of the world is aging and resources are depleted. A recent report released by the Economist Intelligence Unit predicts that Africa's GDP growth will increase from 2.2 percent in 20236% to 32%, ranking second in the world, second only to Asia. Among the 20 fastest-growing countries in the world in 2024Twelve African countries will be included, with growth expected to be between 6 and 10 per cent.
Of course, there are 54 countries in Africa, and the economies vary greatly from country to country. Looking at the African countries we mentioned earlier: Nigeria, Morocco, and Tanzania, either the degree of economic development in Africa is relatively high, or the development rate is relatively fast. Nigeria, in particular, is not only the largest economy in Africa, but also a country with a relatively large number of non-Chinese nationals, with 10.2 million according to incomplete statistics. In Nigeria, most of the early Chinese were entrepreneurs who invested and set up factories in the local area, and after the 80s, there were still a number of businessmen from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. As they put down roots in the local area, they also brought with them a large number of mainland immigrants. This group of Chinese has brought economic development to the local area, has a relatively high social status in the local area, is respected by the ** and the people, and is also the main ** of the "Chinese chieftain". Nigerians also tend to look up to the Chinese. In both the BBC's 2014 and 2017 international image surveys of major world countries, the proportion of Nigerians with a positive view of China remained stable at more than 80%, the highest among the 17 countries surveyed. The world is so big, why are it Chinese? At the end of the day,It has to be the hard-working and capable of our Chinese. Farming, setting up restaurants, opening barber shops, opening farms, and engaging in engineering projects, the Chinese have not stopped when they have arrived in Africa, and have done all the work they can do. According to Yuan Nansheng, a professor at the China Foreign Affairs University, the new building of the Chinese Embassy in Zimbabwe was completed in just over two years, and even the local driver of the embassy praised: "It's really incredible, even if this project is completed in 10 years, it will still be the fastest in Zimbabwe." ”
Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Republic of Zimbabwe. **The Observer Network has been completed for more than two years, and in fact, it is quite a normal speed in China. It's just that many Africans are lazy and lazy. Chinese marathon agents who recruit black athletes in Africa have complained: they accepted funding and turned around to sign contracts with others, asked for visas but drank into mud, and only found out that they had criminal ...... when they were ready to race
*: Ten points of character historyOf course, there are lazy people among the Chinese. Opportunities are reserved for those who take the initiative. Africa is a place full of opportunities, and hard-working Chinese have only acquired wealth through their own hands, one step faster than the locals. From a small trader to a tycoon, from a wage earner to a funder. The Chinese have not forgotten to bring the locals to "make money" together, and have won the recognition and respect of the locals. The so-called "superior to man" is just the gap between the rich and the poor.
The Chinese have traveled thousands of miles to Africa to work hard, which is indeed an unprecedented wonderful experience. In an environment where we can't win at home, we can win wealth and status with our own hands in this new land of Africa. The industriousness of the Chinese has finally been rewarded to the greatest extent here.