Footwear Or Other Industries May Consider Factory Relocation To Africa.

As early as the beginning of this year, Yifu Lin, vice chairman of the all China Federation of industry and commerce, suggested that Hong Kong enterprises should be able to move labor-intensive factories to Africa. The main advantage is that Africa has a population of about one billion and is very cheap P.

Liu Zhanhao, chairman of the Hongkong Federation of industry, later said that Yifu Lin's proposal has given him great inspiration. At present, the labor market in Africa has an advantage. The monthly salary of the local people is about 50 dollars, and I believe that the next ten years will remain highly competitive.

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< p > < strong > first refusal to develop Africa > /strong > /p >

"P", but Liu admitted last week that he still had few members wanting to go to Africa until now.

An African delegation led by Yifu Lin started this month. He also invited the chief engineer, but the members were generally indifferent. Only a few queries were signed and no one signed up.

Some analysts point out that this is because Hong Kong businessmen have a predominant negative impression on the business environment in Africa. In addition to poor economy and chaotic public order, Africans, especially black people, are often labelled lazily so that Hong Kong businessmen are reluctant to see it.

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< p > however, in the eyes of Liang Richang, President of the Hongkong footwear industry's < /a > Association, "a href=" http:// "www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_x.asp", Africa is a very suitable place to open factories and business opportunities.

Liang Richang, who has a reputation as a shoe maker, has opened a factory in Ethiopia in 2009 and has invested more than 100 million yuan. It is one of the forerunners of Hong Kong businessmen from Asia to Africa.

He said in an interview that at present, there are nearly 1000 employees in two factories in the local area. Last year, the output reached 200 thousand pairs of shoes. The order is good this year, and the annual output is expected to reach 300 thousand pairs of shoes.

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< p > recalled that when he first opened his factory in Ethiopia, Liang Richang shared a lot of interesting things. One time, it was on the full moon festival. The local workers told him that if the moon was full moon on that night, the next day would be a holiday. Otherwise, if the moon was not visible, the next day would resume work as usual.

He joked that he had been watching the celestial phenomena on the night and saw that the moon was not full moon. I felt relieved and thought that the second day would start as usual. How could we know that second days later, we found no one in the factory.

After asking, I knew that it was not the moon that looked at Ethiopia, but the moon in Mecca, which made him laugh.

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< p > despite embarrassment, but in Liang Richang's view, < a href= "http:// www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_p.asp" > Africa < /a > the greatest advantage of workers is friendship with China, which is supported by the support of the country for many years.

He said that from the time of Mao Zedong, China often paid free assistance to Africa.

Although the European and American countries also have assistance, the practice is to invest in their own businesses after investing in Europe, and the so-called local people who help the local people actually benefit from it.

In contrast, China's aid is truly selfless.

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< p > Liang Richang pointed out that the country's multi-year aid has made Africans generally feel good about the Chinese people. Only through personal experience did they know that Chinese people went to Europe and were more popular than Europeans. Unfortunately, few Hong Kong businessmen have noticed this.

In his view, Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam, Philippines and Malaysia have territorial disputes with China and may not be able to solve them for generations.

There is no border dispute between Africa and China, and there will be no risk of China's riot.

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Liang Richang P disagrees with the rumors of chaos in Africa. He laughs at the fact that many foreigners see China as chaotic and unaware.

He stressed that Ethiopia is very safe and has never heard of any robbery, unless there is a danger in the border area, so long as we do not go to the border areas, there is security.

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< p > there are Hong Kong businessmen who believe that African workers are lazy and stupid, and affect their work efficiency.

Liang Richang also disagreed with this, saying that with the development of African economy, people began to have desires, and many people were willing to work overtime.

Of course, if the Chinese standards are compared with the special diligent people, the acceptance ability of the Africans is indeed relatively slow, and more time is needed for training.

But it is much better than before. In his factory, the local people have greatly improved their efficiency and accuracy.

At present, the average monthly salary of each worker is only HK $500.

Although the proficiency level is lower than that of the mainland workers, the price performance ratio is high.

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< p > Liang Richang stressed that Africa is very suitable for the development of Chinese enterprises. < a href= "http:// www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_x.asp" > footwear > /a > planting, cotton and other industries have particular prospects for development.

Take Ethiopia as an example, there are about 90000000 people in the whole country, most of whom are young people and have enough labor force.

In addition, the country has tax preferences, and its footwear products are exempt from customs duties in the US, Europe and the mainland of China.

The only drawback is that logistics is rather difficult. Therefore, when we go to Africa, we need to find out how much raw materials we can supply, otherwise, no matter how cheap the labor is, it will be difficult to survive.

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