Some viewpoints of "Globalization of Guangzhou"

wamway

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dietrich Soyez

1992 - 2007: Chair of Dept. of Geography, University of Cologne.
2007- : Part-time Professor Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Schoolof Geography and Planning/School of Tourism Management.
Vice President of the International Geographical Union/IGU, the world-wide umbrella organization of geographers.

Some viewpoints (Maybe not the original words):

• The concept about globalization are normally about the financial influence from above, for example, a Financial center such as Frankfurt. But the globalization of Guangzhou are from below, the not so rich African businessman that sale the cheap products from Guangzhou to African countries.

• There are 30 to 50 thousand of black African living in Guangzhou, mainly for business.

• The African in Guangzhou are seperated from the Chinese since they can't speak Chinese and the Chinese nearby are a little bit afraid since they don't how to deal with the Blacks, similar to Turk in Germany.

• How to treat those foreigners in Guangzhou? The good Canadian way or the inappropriate German way? Now it's more like the German way, both from government and society.

• The sex ratio of those African business people. Mostly man with Muslin religion and women with Christian religion.

• How do they resove the sex problem? For some of the man, they will marry a Chinese girl and get birth children. The Muslin rules that they can't marry non-Muslin is not much a problem in the attracting of beatiful women and the loneliness of living in China.

• About the questions on the quality of Chinese products. The Chinese products are cheap enough so that they can afford to buy and good enough for several years. They also would like to buy the good quality western products but the high price stopped them out.

• Chinese factory in Africa. Africans like to work in those Chinese factory since they are treated in different way from those western ones. The western investors are thought as colonists because of the history.

来自：http://wanghc-bonn.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!32FDA35A945A2D35!1526.entry

wamway

　　新华网广州7月15日电（记者孔博、刘万利）广州市公安局新闻办15日晚通报称，当日下午，广州市广园西路发生非洲裔外籍人员聚集派出所并堵塞交通事件。

　　广州警方称，15日14时50分，越秀区公安分局矿泉派出所民警依法在广园西路唐旗服装城二楼进行治安检查时，一名涉嫌非法兑换外币的外籍男子用手击破窗户玻璃后向外爬，背部被玻璃刮伤。

民警随后发现，另有一名外籍男子坠楼倒地受伤，伤势较重。

　　事发后，民警迅速拨打120电话，及时将伤者送往医院救治。在这期间，陆续有一些非洲裔外籍人员来到矿泉派出所门口聚集，导致广园西路交通严重堵塞。广州警方组织民警对现场非洲裔外籍人员进行劝解，疏导交通。17时30分许，广园西路交通逐渐恢复。

　　记者在现场看到，20时30分许，聚集在矿泉派出所附近的非洲裔人员逐渐散去。

　　广州警方表示，警方已协调医院全力以赴救治伤者，事件仍在进一步调查中。

　　随着中非贸易日益畅旺，广州吸引了大批非洲客商，他们主要从事服装、日用品等批发业务。非洲裔人员非法居留问题也日益突出。

引自：http://news.sohu.com/20090716/n265246641.shtml。

paradoxfishbear

呵——我喜欢的话题啊！可惜无法亲自听到