China's youth unemployment rate has broken a new high in the past few months, and some young people have shot their attention to Africa.
A report from the China Youth Daily on Wednesday (July 19) introduced two of them, both of which were fresh graduates. A boy named Zhang Yang, who voted more than 1,600 online resumes and 50 offline resumes.Finally, I found a job far away from Africa and annual salary of 200,000 yuan (RMB, Same as S $ 36,998).
The other is Li Weiwei, a girl who studies accounting. After finding a job in China, he is determined to find a job in Africa.
Africa's employment popularity has soared, knowing that "an annual salary of 300,000, let you station in Africa, are you willing?" It has been viewed more than 21 million times;260 million.
Money Paradise?
Many posts related to Africa on Chinese social media are related to making money.
Xiaohongshu's last article "After 00 in Africa has earned the first 400,000 in life", a 22 -year -old girl told that she had earned 400,000 yuan in Africa for two years.
A 28 -year -old video blogger "Little Clock Johnny", who has worked in Africa for five years, returned to China in January this year.
Xiaozhong himself has also made a lot of videos that young people make money in Africa, including "97 girls selling hundreds of thousands in Africa in 1997", "After 00, Shandong guys drop out of school to sell second -hand goods in Africa, buy houses at the age of 20"Being a boss", "After the 90s, Hubei brother resigned to start a business as an e -commerce company, with a million annual income" ...
The wealthy case that can be seen on the Internet has made Africa a "money paradise" that can quickly realize the freedom of wealth in the eyes of more and more Chinese young people.
Generally speaking, Chinese companies in Africa can be divided into three categories: high -tech enterprises, state -owned enterprises for infrastructure, and private enterprises doing trade.
The salary of foreign Africa is mainly composed of two parts.Some are normal salary, which is not much different from the salary of the same position in China.The more considerable part is overseas subsidies, usually the more dangerous the country, the higher the subsidy.
In summary, the salary of fresh graduates in Africa can reach two to three times that of the same position in China.Coupled with the company's general packaging and accommodation, the local lack of consumption and entertainment, and the money made in Africa can basically be saved.
In addition to making money, Africa also gives some people a chance to enter the head enterprise.A counselor at the graduate school of the “Double African” college in China told the China Youth Daily that a boy in the grade was hired by a Chinese -funded enterprise in the head of an industry in Africa.Maybe even resume screening can't pass this level.
Another side of heaven
Although the threshold of Chinese -funded enterprises in Africa is relatively low, the difficulty factor is increasing as the applicants become more.
Li Weiwei said in an interview with the China Youth Daily that if a small company with special small, special new, and no more than a hundred employees, the remaining large central state -owned enterprises, listed companies, well -known foreign companies and some companies that have obtained "endorsements" in AfricaThere are only more than 50.Li Weiwei voted more than 50 people, and there was no time to respond.
If you choose a small private enterprise in Africa, it takes time and energy to confirm whether the company is reliable.
Zhang Yang, who has received several foreign trade companies, said that there are those who sell clothes and sell cars in these companies. They do not seem to be very formal. The registration information also shows that there are only a dozen people in the company.Essence
In addition, Zhang Yang will also see if the company has the official website, whether the online information is rich, and whether there are bad reviews on social media.Repeatedly, he finally chose a listed company in Ghana.
job seekers can also pass the intermediary, but most of these jobs use blue -collar workers, and intermediaries usually charge an intermediary fee of 8,000 to 10,000 yuan, including fake intermediaries.Surging News reported in 2017 that after a Shandong farmer paid 13,000 yuan, the intermediary repeatedly canceled his trip to Africa on the grounds of company changes.
After arriving in Africa, medical and health conditions and personal safety are new problems that job applicants face.
According to a report from Phoenix.com in June, Chen Long, a Chinese -funded enterprise in Africa, said that many colleagues around him have been infected with malaria.In a report of Surging News, a 23 -year -old girl who worked in the African Congo even had five malaria in the African Congo.
Surging News released a map of overseas employees in Chinese enterprises in 2015, more than 60%of them occurred in Africa. South Africa, Cameroon, Nigeria and Ghana were all high incidence of Chinese -owned employees.In March of this year, nine Chinese miners were killed in the one -gold mine in China and Africa, reminding people the risk of working in Africa.
Chen Hui, who worked in Angola, Africa, was working in a camp like a camp, and a high wall was set up with containers around the park.He was assigned to live in a container room with a length of 7.5 meters long and 2 meters wide. The air conditioner in the iron house must be adjusted to 16 degrees Celsius every day at noon.
Due to a malignant case before, the gatekeeper of Chen Hui's park carried a gun, and the employees could not go out casually, so that he rarely went to the local mall.But Chen Hui has no choice, because "freedom" means "abandon protection".
Take the China -Africa Trade Express?
Trade between China and Africa began in 1950, but at that time, most countries in Africa were not independent, and only a few countries such as Egypt and Morocco had trade with China.
Since the reform and opening up, China -Africa trade has increased, and with the launch of the "China -Africa Cooperation Forum" in 2000, it has entered a stage of rapid development.China officially proposed the concept of "China -Africa Destiny Community" for the first time in 2013. Five years later, China and Africa reached the "Belt and Road" consensus.
Over the past 20 years, China -Africa trade has increased dozens of times, from $ 12.4 billion (16.5 billion new clouds) in 2002 to $ 282 billion in 2022.
The number of non -Chinese companies has also doubled in the past 10 years, from more than 2,000 in 2012 to more than 3,000 announced by the Ministry of Commerce in 2022.According to McKinsey, the number of Chinese companies in Africa may have exceeded 10,000.
According to Phoenix.com, the number of Chinese companies has exceeded 3,500 among more than 20 industrial parks constructed by China -Africa.There are 150,000 Chinese who work in the industrial park.A 2013 report on economists pointed out that there were more than 1 million Chinese in Africa at that time.
The inflection point of Africa recruits appeared in 2021.A state -owned enterprise recruitment manager of Algeria said in an interview that it was affected by the epidemic before 2021, and many African companies had difficulty recruiting workers; but since the end of 2021, the number of African recruitment interviewees has increased by 80 %.
The staff of an overseas recruitment website in China also said that the trend of fresh graduates looking for work abroad has risen slowly from 2021, which is particularly prominent this year.
The Chinese Youth Daily noticed that more of the overseas job hunting is some fresh graduates who have lost in spring and autumn, many of which come from "double -African" colleges.
To solve the optimal solution of employment?
Video blogger Xiaozhong admitted in a video released on the 14th of this month that he was born in the countryside, and his family could not. "It really gives many people like our bad family."
Young people who went to Africa a few years ago like Xiaozhong coincided with the use of workers during the epidemic, accumulated a savings, and could even buy a house in Chengdu for a few years.But as China's employment situation is more severe, Africa can imagine that it will become more and more "rolled."
Chen Hui, who lives in the park, was approved to return to China after his vacation was approved in April this year, and he did not plan to return to Africa again.However, he voted for a job letter to nearly 500 companies in China, and almost no echo, and began to find a way to return to Africa.
Mo Mo, who graduated from a 985 university in Guangzhou last July, did not use Africa's work as the first choice at the beginning.After experiencing tide and private enterprise recruitment, she began to think that no job was better than Africa.
Zhu Yuying, who also graduated last year, invested 70 resumes in China, only found a starting salary of 90,000 yuan.He saw Africa's job opportunities in social media. After submitting his resume, he found a starting salary of Africa 240,000 yuan.
Although Africa provides the current employment options for young Chinese, it should be noted that Africa itself is also facing the problem of job shortage.
According to the data of the newspaper's Project Syndicate, in the next 30 years, as many as 20 million young people in Africa will join the labor force each year.By 2050, the population of Africa is expected to reach 840 million.
China's youth unemployment rate rose to a record high in June to 21.3%. In 2023, the number of college graduates reached 11.58 million.When thousands of young people crossed the river bridge, Africa provided some people with an option to swim through the river.
But even if there are more opportunities in Africa, it cannot cross the entire job of hobbies to "ashore", not to mention that in the next decades, Africa will also digest its own employment population.In China, the employment problem of solving drugs is urgently needed, and Africa can only take a dose of temporary painkillers at most.
