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Published:2011-04-17 10:25:10 Source: Views:2987

"Chinafurniture trade capital---- lecong city, numerous expatriates are active here. These foreigners are in lecong city chasing his dream of gold, but also for lecong city's business sector contribution to the development of strength.

However, these different colors, different languages, different cultural ideas of the foreigners went to ocean to lecong city, language barriers, poor communication, cultural conflict is inevitable, which, although occupying a considerable part of the bustling lecong foreigners city, it is like to live in "islands" above. "How to manage, good service and these foreigners," the test of this question the wisdom of the government. Not long ago, lecong city established its first foreign friendship club, let foreigners into their community work into the region, "the first to eat crab" town street.

Chancheng city, lecong city----- to go on both sides of the "pendulum man"

Satish from India, is a division of India based in Guangzhou, Foshan, trading company staff presence, and his main job is in the furniture trade. Satish first met in a weekend, he wore large baggy basketball clothes, carrying a bag, my ears with earplugs MP4, play in the spring of this year the evening was singing Faye Wong's "Legend", and then he told reporters that his only 28 years old. In short you can not quite shape his links with a businessman. But Satish, said: "Now is the weekend, is the rest time, work when I do not dress like this."

Satish2008 entry in India in this trading companies, and then was posted to Foshan. Just the job for him is a job: "I want to earn enough money here, and then returned to India to buy a house of their own." However, making money is, Satish time into lecong city not the best. In 2008 the global financial crisis inevitably impact India's furniture imports; while now lecong city for the sake of many furniture companies explore the international market, exports in some key areas of the body, which caused a great deal to the Satish competitive pressure . Satish said: "Here to sell furniture to India, the money can be earned, but the competition is fierce."

Satish everyday life like a "pendulum people." Every morning about 10 o'clock, Satish would get the bus from Chancheng city "placed" to lecong city, where the trade orders according to company requirements, buy furniture, looking for international logistics consignments, with the single payment. Busy all of this, Satish would get on the bus and then "put" back Chancheng city. Satish on such a life but never bored, he said: "Chancheng many things I love. Chancheng the Indian restaurant, a fitness club I like, buy clothes, but also a lot more choice."

Satish's idea of ??foreign businessmen in lecong city has a fairly universal, far from home alone, eating and living habits are not used to the different, have prompted them to choose to have more entertainment and consumer sites, modern life richer options urban living. In lecong, the relative lack of consumer entertainment is clearly unable to meet the daily needs of foreign businessmen. As Satish said: "After all, you can not ask for a small town supermarket both rum to Africa, but also sell authentic Indian curry." And this reality has created music from a large number of foreign businessmen in the "pendulum of people . "

" Master OF China "sometimes can not understand China

First saw of Warm its in a light rain was falling in the afternoon. Tea box was opened by his wife. if not the appearance of this body that 42 African black-specific, the reporter would think that almost across the street sitting in Shunde, which has a skill many years the old man of the tea .

"I have been in China for 13 years, the favorite drink is Chinese tea," it seems very satisfied with the reporter Ouham surprise, his eyes shining with pride and mischievous, said in fluent Chinese: "So I let my Chinese wife opened a tea shop, so I can always enjoy the best tea. "

That Warm is the Nigerian, when the 22 years old in Nigeria after graduated from a university, engaged in several occupations. In his 29 years old, an uncle, a diplomat in China, returned from China, said to him: "go to China now, where there are a lot of opportunities." So in 1997, it came to Guangzhou, China Warm, blue jeans , radios, small appliances and other household items wholesale return to Africa. That Warm said: "I had relatively bad luck, money is not easy, saving in the hands are very few."

In 2002, a business partner that Ouham Nigeria received a hotel ordered some office furniture requirements of the order, the business partner for other busy pumping up at the moment, to request that Ouham help contact the business. The first business with lecong let it Warm impressed: "I remember only 3 days to earn 3,200USD." Pursuit of profit is a businessman by nature, since then, that the cause of the focus gradually from Ouham Guangzhou to lecong city his furniture from China to Africa, increasing the smooth development of trade. In 2004, that China is now Ouham Hubei Ji met his wife, two married in 2005 in the music and select from the settlement. Married a Chinese wife, coupled with years and years in the music from the living, it becomes a drink Pu'er Ouham, can speak fluent Chinese, "master China."

Because of Chinese laws and regulations, social atmosphere and music from the business environment has a considerable degree of understanding, it has become in many African friends Ouham compass, how to open an office in the department in which any business, goods Sinotrans the attention What matters, in his always here to get the right advice. But do not think he is a Warm "master China."

That Warm college-educated with "government-led type of economy" to describe the characteristics of the Chinese economy: "In China, the government's measures on the social and economic trends and business environment have a decisive impact. So I hope to see more government development plan, for my own career help, but foreigners are not many channels now. I can only read the newspaper through the wife, give me some information, but that the information obtained was limited, So I'm really not a 'China head'. "

Special group of services and management of new requirements

That Warm and Satish's experience is a microcosm of lecong city for foreign businessmen. The last century, Guangdong and other places in Africa and Southeast Asia's export trade increased rapidly, attracting a large number of foreign businessmen in the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong's external trade sector. Also in the same period, lecong city's furniture industry after nearly 20 years of development, capital and accumulated considerable experience in this period lecong city government guidance on the initial private capital to upgrade the furniture market, lecong city's furniture market began professional explore the international market, and gradually formed a "buy global, sell global" situation. Against this background, some foreign businessmen found lecong city bears the valuable place in the huge business opportunities, has begun to enter the lecong city "Gold Rush" and gradually formed active in lecong city today can not be ignored foreign groups.

That Warm and Satish problems encountered in almost every work in the lecong city problems faced by foreign businessmen must: cultural barriers lead to a lack of sense of belonging to the Chinese laws and regulations, lack of understanding of the difficulties of bringing the work, eating and living habits of the inconveniences of living in different result ... ... Although many foreigners living in the heart of the lecong city, but as exposure to "spiritual island."

The characteristics of groups of foreigners lecong city in that Warm and Satish who has a concentrated expression of the same: mobility is very large, according to statistics from the police station music, as usual like the music from the Ouham and registered more than 280 foreigners have , but active in the daily number of foreigners who lecong city much more than that, only the Louvre under the lecong city International Furniture Exhibition Center statistics, the daily access to the Expo Center to more than a thousand foreigners, most of these people like Satish This "Pendulum Man"; most of them are engaged in business activities, on the whole has a certain economic strength; subjective stronger sense of compliance with the law, but because the Chinese are not familiar with laws and regulations, from time to time unwittingly violate the law of China's economy legal regulations. These characteristics, the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Bureau Exit-Entry Administration, Deputy Secretary Mo Lim summarized as follows: settlers less mobile are more; need government services more flexible guidance requires relatively less rigid management.

All this whole lecong city's social services administration proposed new requirements.