Lishui Guy Ethiopia Runs A Clothing Factory, Which Sells Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars A Year.

If you want to describe Africa with one word, poverty, wildness and wildness are expected to pop up in many people's minds.

For those who have been to Africa, "opportunities" may be their key words. This is the hot spot for business and entrepreneurship. It is the field of hope.

In the words of a Zhejiang businessman, it is easy to make money in Africa and feel good in nature.

Qianjiang Evening News and Zhejiang Financial Assets Exchange Center launched a large-scale interview activity along the "one belt and one road" line. The third stop chose Africa.

The members of the inspection group walked into Ethiopia and Zimbabwe. In these two countries, we can feel Chinese elements and Chinese complex everywhere.

Ethiopia's "CopyChina" and Zimbabwe's "LookEast" seem to be their general consensus from official to private.

We visited some projects and enterprises invested by Zhejiang businessmen in Ethiopia and zimbabweb.

In those years, Zhejiang merchants who had left home and crossed the seas and rushed to Africa, had built up a new world in the African continent through years of hard work and pioneering work.

Lishui guy runs a garment factory in Africa

Sales exceed 100 million yuan a year

In June, Ethiopia was cool and pleasant, and the temperature of the Sibai Bei Bai in Capital Asia was more than 10 degrees Celsius.

In this city, many of them are related to China, such as magnificent buildings, urban light rail and bus running on the road.

Dongfang Industrial Park, located in the southeast corner of Addisababa, is more than an hour's drive from downtown.

Most of the people here are Chinese enterprises.

Zou Haibo, a native of Lishui, has a clothing factory here, mainly in wholesale business.

Local time on June 22nd, we walked into his factory and saw a scene of bustling production.

From time to time, Zou Haibo used to talk with nigger employees in local dialect.

"We have just received 20 thousand orders for T-shirts, and the customers are tightening up. We will deliver the goods tomorrow."

He said with a smile.

Zou Haibo is only 31 this year, but he has been in Ethiopia for 10 years.

He said his parents used to make clothing trade in Yiwu Small Commodity City, and they often used to help.

One of their clients was a Ethiopia native who had a good relationship with him.

In 2008, Zou Haibo enrolled in a Career Technical College in Hangzhou, majoring in computer science.

"I feel I am not reading material, but I haven't read it for second years."

In the introduction of black friends, in 2009, he went to Ethiopia to study and stayed in the local clothing trade.

Later, after a little savings, he decided to run a factory.

Zou Haibo said that the factory can enjoy preferential treatment for 5 years' income tax deduction.

More importantly, labor costs are quite cheap.

"Ordinary black employees earn 60 to 80 dollars a month."

Seeing our puzzled eyes, he hurriedly added again, "this type of work, such salary level is not low in the locals."

At present, there are 40 Chinese employees in the garment factory, and nearly 1000 employees in Ethiopia.

The "Haibo" brand clothing sold locally is quite good.

"Annual sales volume is between 100 million and 200 million yuan."

The business grew bigger and bigger, and Zou Haibo took his family to Ethiopia.

He worked in Yiwu to work for his father. Now his father has become an assistant to help him with his business.

His children also entered kindergarten at the local international school.

Zou Haibo is also ready to expand production.

He led us to a factory building in the industrial area.

"It's almost ready."

Zou Haibo said that the original factory building was rented and he bought it himself.

"It is much larger than the original factory building. After the construction is completed, the production scale can be expanded by at least 1/3, and the staff will increase to about 1500 people."

Jinhua boss's paper mill

Top grade tissue is sold at 5 yuan a pack.

The log paper industry is also a business run by Zhejiang businessmen in Ethiopia. The boss is a Jinhua native.

At the gate of the factory, we were very familiar with these Chinese characters.

This company has not been in Africa for a long time, but from investigation to implementation, it is very fast.

Jin Kang, the general manager of the company, said that in October 2016, the chairman took people to inspect, took the ground in December, started in March last year, and started production in April this year.

The first phase of investment was 1 hundred million, and a production line of 35 tons per day was formed.

"I still think the market prospect is good."

The factory is mainly mechanized, with a small number of employees. The total number of Chinese employees plus local staff in Ethiopia is more than 100.

In the production workshop, Jin Kang walks around to introduce, this set of paper making equipment is imported from China, is the most advanced.

To our surprise, the chairman and Kim Kang are not making paper, but they are doing real estate in China.

"This crossover is a little too big."

We blurted out.

"If we are in China, we will not dare to try."

Kim Kang smiled and said that the competition in China's domestic papermaking industry was fierce.

But here, business opportunities are limitless.

Because most countries in Africa now lack everything, it is a typical seller's market.

"We are the largest paper manufacturer in Ethiopia, and our products are mainly sold locally.

The country has a population of more than 100 million and has huge market potential.

The company also reserved a location for the production line. "

"We can also enjoy all kinds of preferential policies, and the cost of water and electricity is low, which greatly reduces production costs."

Jin Kang said that the electricity cost is almost 1 yuan per hour.

There are various products in the factory office, with different brand names.

Among them, the most expensive brand is Viva, the outer packing is very exquisite, a standard box pumping, to sell RMB 5 yuan a pack, but still very pretty.

A Chinese tour guide working in Ethiopia saw a "Viva" brand of paper towel. It showed a surprised and proud expression: "I used this brand, but I didn't expect it to be made by Chinese enterprises."

Ferrochrome plant of Zhejiang Business Office

Industrial chain continues to extend

It was 3.5 hours' drive from Harare, capital of Zimbabwe, to quill.

In the Kui Lu Industrial Park, there is a Chinese smelter, "Jinan ferrochrome Alloy Co.", which is a member of the Zhejiang chamber of Commerce in Zimbabwe.

This company is the main ferrochrome producer in Zimbabwe, and has great reputation in the political and business circles.

Enter the company gate, "cooperation, harmony, win win" six words are very eye-catching.

The workers are busy, and the fire in the smelting furnace is exceptionally strong.

The more you go inside, the more you feel the heat coming from your face.

Zhou Xuegong, general manager of the company, said that they used to do ore smelting in the country. In 2012, they brought 30 people to Zimbabwe to set up the company. They are rich in chromate resources. Chromite is a scarce resource in China, while Zimbabwe chrome reserves are second in the world.

The government of Zimbabwe prohibits direct export of raw ore and strongly advocates the processing of chrome ore into ferrochrome and re export.

The government will also reward foreign currency for export.

Starting from the smelter, in just 6 years, Jinan has laid out 5 different types of factories in Zimbabwe. In addition, mineral processing plants, oxygen plants, lime plants and slag washing plants are becoming more and more complete.

In fact, some factories are not what they want to build at the beginning.

For example, smelting requires high purity oxygen, but the local supply can not meet the demand completely, and the price is very high.

Jinan's goal is to become the largest ferrochrome producer in Zimbabwe, and their industrial chain is still further expanding. At present, they are planning to build an annual production of 20 thousand tons of graphite electrode plant and an annual output of 15 thousand tons of magnesium brick factory and other related supporting projects. "All these consumables Zimbabwe need to import, if built, the market prospects in the local market should not be underestimated."

Zhou Xuegong said: now Zimbabwe is gradually opening up its investment policy, and its investment environment is becoming more stable. Domestic enterprises have thrown olive branches on these supporting projects. They also hope to make these projects as soon as possible through cooperation.

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Zhejiang businessmen invested more than 3 billion dollars in Africa.

Data from the Provincial Department of Commerce show that last year, our province's non trade volume amounted to 25 billion 730 million US dollars, accounting for 15.2% of the total volume of non trade volume.

Zhejiang imported $3 billion 980 million from Africa, an increase of 77.1% over the same period last year.

Meanwhile, Zhejiang's investment in Africa has been developing rapidly.

By the end of 2017, Zhejiang's total investment in Africa amounted to US $3 billion 80 million.

Through the approval or record of the commerce department, 525 non Zhejiang business enterprises have formed industrial investment layout dominated by wholesale, retail, construction, mining and manufacturing industries, and the investment field is expanding continuously.

Relevant personages said that there are some challenges in developing economic and trade cooperation in Africa. There are urgent needs for improvement in infrastructure, business environment needs to be optimized, and some countries are unstable.

But opportunities outweigh challenges: Africa

Huge and extremely abundant resources.