遍布世界的中国人
On my last trip to Europe I noticed aomething that most people do not pay attention to: When I was in Rome I saw that most of the souvenir shops in Rome were owned and managed by Chinese people and not local Italian people anymore.
在上一次的欧洲之行中,我注意到了一件可能其他人没有留意的事情:在罗马的时候,我发现大部分的纪念品商店都是中国人在经营,而不再是意大利当地人。
In Mexico City if you go downtown to the super market area to buy a small Mexican souvenir, if you pay attention to the details you will notice that almost 100% of the items have a small mark that say: Made in China. They are not made in Mexico anymore but reproduced in China with all the Mexican details.
在墨西哥城,如果你去市中心的超市区买一个小的墨西哥纪念品,留意细节的话你会注意到基本上100%的物件上都会有一个小的标志:Made in China。它们不再是墨西哥制造了,是带有墨西哥细节的中国复制品。
In Spain where the past few years have been extremely difficult due to the deep recession the pricing of homes has been going down and businesses are having difficulty to stay open what you see happening here is that Chinese people are buying not only homes but also the restaurants of the Spanish people and injecting the cash they have to keep the business running and make it their own. They buy the business including the Spanish owner which in many cases keep running the restaurant but the owner is now the Chinese person.
在西班牙,过去的一些年里因为深陷经济衰退而非常难过,房屋价格持续走低,生意难以支撑。你在这里看到的是,中国人不但在购买房产而且在购买西班牙人的餐馆,他们向餐馆注入资金,让生意维持运营。很多时候,他们买下西班牙人的餐厅的时候甚至连原来的老板也收至麾下,这样餐厅可以正常营运,只是老板换成了中国人。
When I was in Milan at the fashion square area where all the big Brands like Gucci, Prada, Dior, Hermes, Ferragamo, Bvulgari and so on are at you see that about 70% of the people inside is Asian, most of them Chinese and the rest of the people (The other 30%) are form other countries of the world. But there is more: Most of the people inside the store that are really buying are the Chinese, the rest is only doing window shoping. I asked a lady at the Gucci store how much of the total sales they make everyday are from Chinese? She told me that about 80% of the total goods sold every day were from Chinese people. Every high end stor MUST have Chinese employees that are able to speak Italian, English and of course Chinese. Most of them are young, maybe in their 20’s and are from either Beijing or Shanghai. Of course there are exceptions, maybe some are from Guangzhou or Shenzhen or other parts of China.
About 8-10% of the total population of China is capable of traveling to othe countries of the world and even some of them make multiple trips a year. That is aboout 120-130 million people total that are traveling every year to the most popular places in the world for the Chinese citizens: Europe, USA, Canada and Australia and maybe Japan.
当我在米兰的时尚广场,那里有很多奢侈品牌像Gucci, Prada, Dior, Hermes, Ferragamo, Bvulgari 等等。你可以看到里面有70%的人是亚洲人,而其中大部分又是中国人,剩下30%的是世界其它国家的人。还不止这样:大部分在商店里面购买的是中国人,其他的人基本上就是逛下商场。我在Gucci店里面问了一位女士,每天要和中国人做多少生意?她告诉我每天大概80%的生意都是中国人。每一个高端品牌的店面必须配备一个中国员工,能够说意大利语,英文当然还有中文。他们大部分都是20出头的年轻人,来自北京,上海,广州,深圳这样的城市,当然了也有来自其他城市的。现在中国有8-10%的人口有能力出境游,其中有些人甚至能够一年多次出国游。这意味着每年有1.2-1.3亿的中国人去那些热门国家旅游:欧洲,美国,加拿大,澳大利亚,也许还有日本。
Everywhere you go there are not some but many Chinese tourist. I have seen them in Italy in Milan, Florence, Rome, in USA everywhere specially in California in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York.
无论哪里都能够看到非常多的中国游客。我在意大利米兰,佛罗伦萨,罗马遇到他们,在美国所有地方都能遇到他们,尤其是洛杉矶,旧金山和纽约。
In the most visited cities which are usually the biggest in every country there are many Chinese restaurants, shops and even a neightbourhood usually called Chinatown where most of the Chinese immigrants gather and put their shops, restaurants, businesses and homes. The biggest ones in USA are in San Francisco and New York.
这些最常去的城市中,通常也是那些国家最大的城市。而聚集很多中国餐馆,商店的地方被称之为唐人街,大部分的中国移民都聚集在唐人街,在那里居住,开商店,餐馆,做生意。美国最大的两个唐人街位于在旧金山和纽约。
The Chinese presence is strongly felt all over the world, the tourism of Chinese to many countries is saving their economies or if it is not saving the economy maybe it represent a very important part of it like in Thailand as an example.
整个世界都能够强烈感觉到中国人的存在,对一些国家来说,中国的旅游者正在拯救他们的经济,而另一些国家虽然说不上拯救,但中国旅游者也是扮演着很重要的作用,如泰国。
And now that some of the places are saturated with Chinese people what you see is that some are moving to smaller cities where they feel there is more opportunities to make a living, run a business and make progress. I just saw this in areas where you ask yourself: How can a Chinese person come to a city this small and open up a business and be succesful? Well, they are doing it and it is happening more often.
现在,在一些中国人已经饱和的地方你能够看到有些中国人正在迁往更小的城市,他们觉得那里有更好地机会谋生,做生意,获得发展。我在一些领域看到了这些现象,你会问自己:一个中国人是怎么来到这样一个小城市,启动生意并且取得成功的呢?好吧,他们就是这么做的,而且经常发生。
If China’s economy keeps the growth pace it has and with the new law that will allow the Chinese couples to have more than one children thae only thing I see in the future is China all over the world.
如果中国的经济保持现有的增长速度,伴随着刚放开的二胎新政策,我可以看到的将来是中国人遍布世界。
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