The First Overseas Special Economic Zone In China Is Revealed

For many Chinese, Mauritius is a country that only knows its name and its location.

In fact, it is a small island on the southern India ocean, 800 kilometers east of Madagascar, with an area of only 2000 square kilometers, roughly equivalent to 1/3 of Guangzhou.

But this is an unknown island. At the beginning of last month, a large delegation of Huang Mengfu, vice chairman of the Chinese National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and chairman of the National Federation of industry and commerce, led the delegation of the Ministry of Commerce, including a group of highly accomplished Chinese entrepreneurs.

The delegation went to visit the "Tianli Economic and trade cooperation zone" (MIET) on Mao island. The trade area is being built as "China's first overseas special economic zone". It has been fully affirmed by Huang Mengfu and his government. It has been placed high expectations by the Mauritius government. The Mao government hopes to grow into "Singapore in Africa" with the help of MIET.

In fact, Mauritius is becoming a springboard for Chinese enterprises to enter the African continent. At present, there are more than 3000 Chinese enterprises registered in Mao.

The "Wang Junxia" labor advantage took place at 9 a.m. in the early May, when Wang Junxia, 36, went to work in Tianli textile mill as usual.

As a laid-off female worker of the six cotton mill in Xi'an, the job at hand is that she has been very familiar with her work since she was 17 years old. The only difference is that the factory is located in Mauritius beyond the mountains and rivers.

Like more than 5000 other textile workers from China, Wang knew nothing about the East African island in the southwestern India ocean. She saw the cartoon Madagascar's son turn over the map and told her that it was 800 kilometers east of Madagascar on the India ocean.

In the eyes of Zhang Hongyun, chairman of Tianli group, this group of women workers from their hometown worked hard and worked hard, "unlike local workers, they have to leave work at 4:30."

What is more "fatal" is that local workers like to get paid once a month or even a week. After they get paid, they usually like to come back to work after they have finished their work.

"And we women workers signed for three years. On the one hand, they ensured the stability of the construction period. On the other hand, the air tickets were so expensive that they could go back every year and the workers could not afford it."

After three years, the "Wang Junxia" can earn 100 thousand yuan or so. They are satisfied with their previous laid-off careers.

More difficult to overcome is the yearning for family members, especially for children.

There are many small casinos in Mao kingdom to spend the night, but they seldom pay much attention.

With the strength of "Wang Junxia", the Tianli group from Shanxi is growing bigger and bigger in Mauritius.

Tianli group, which was founded in 1997, mainly imports and exports trade. The original spinning and weaving import and export business is mainly related to the Hongkong companies. Later, some trade partners came to Mauritius to open factories, and brought the related businesses.

Later, the Tianli group not only supplied the companies in Hongkong, but also supplied them to local manufacturers.

After that, Tianli group opened a spinning factory directly on Mao island. After that, Chinese people and equipment, Egypt's cotton and Mau Dao's close customers made the sale and purchase work.

In the morning of May 5th, the Central African Economic and trade expedition group, headed by Huang Mengfu, chairman of the National Federation of industry and Commerce and many ministries of Commerce and commerce, visited Mauritius Tianli Economic and trade cooperation zone. Many of the league members were Chinese entrepreneurs who came from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

Mark Twin said, "God must first build Mauritius, and then build a paradise for her."

It has always been a selling point for local people to promote the tourism industry.

From the noisy desert flower Dubai to Mauritius, which is in the cool season, Chinese entrepreneurs from south to north are quite refreshed.

Compared with the development history of the Tianli group, they are more interested in the planning of the Tianli Economic and trade cooperation zone, known as China's first overseas special economic zone, what kind of investment opportunities they have in the construction of the cooperation zone, and what business opportunities will be brought about by the introduction of the cooperation zone.

Among these merchants are those who invest in hotels, golf courses and legendary figures who have opened power plants in Africa and won the title of a tribal chieftain in Nigeria.

After the China Africa Forum was held in 2006, the Ministry of Commerce of China began planning to launch several exemplary cooperative development zones in Africa, which copied the experience of Shenzhen in the past. It could pfer some of the excess domestic production capacity to the past, and also play a clustering effect.

Compared with several other cooperation zones focusing on energy and mainly by the national "mining team", Tianli appears to be "friendly" as a private enterprise in Mauritius's economic and trade cooperation zone.

However, for the idea of common export processing zones, Tianli is also boring. The reason is very simple. The park with more than 2 square kilometers should be careful and careful. "The added value of the general manufacturing industry is very low, and few of them are very small." in addition, such a beautiful place, even if people do not restrict it, is embarrassed to move some factories with high energy consumption and pollution.

As the "headquarters" of Chinese funded enterprises in Africa has joined the famous Wang Zhigang workshop in China, the location of the special zone has changed from "real" to "virtual": the special zone will take advantage of the characteristics of the island, the paradise on earth, the promised land of rule of law, adjacent to Africa, supplemented by warehousing, logistics, customs clearance, taxation and legal services, and Mao's advantage as a member of two common market members in southern Africa and southeast Africa.

To create such a virtual and real service platform, 2 square kilometers will not be smaller.

On the afternoon of the Sino African Economic and trade cooperation (Mauritius) forum held in the afternoon, HUAWEI's "personal statement", which had been exerting for many years in Africa, introduced the company's choice of setting up a backstage support system and financial settlement system in Mauritius.

The choice of HUAWEI has satisfied the people of Tianli group. These are the services provided by the planned headquarters base.

According to officials from the Ministry of investment in Mauritius, there are more than 3000 Chinese companies registered in Mao.

In May 6th, entrepreneurs from the China Africa economic and trade expedition group went to golf in one of Islands, Mauritius, to play golf. The stadium is said to have a reputation in the world.

The whole island is a big golf course. The sea is blue and the sand is fine. The safflower trees are the sixth of the top golf courses in the world.

A business executive said, "this place is really good. If the headquarters base does not have a headquarters base, it will not be a problem for the president club to go to this environment. The president is coming, and the headquarters base is almost there."

30 thousand Xiaoding, a Chinese resident who plated from Tianli group in Meizhou, is 27 years old and has been in Mauritius for 9 years.

Xiaoding is a native of Shandong. He followed the China Construction Group to build a building in Mao Dao. After three years, the project ended. He chose to stay and work in a local company with construction business, and then worked in Tian Li Lai.

For 9 years, Xiao Ding has not yet felt that he has been here enough. The Mauritius's local version of the language is self-taught in recent years.

That evening, the chief executives went to a small Casino (Casino) in the small town. Xiao Ding ran around and arranged the table to get familiar with the staff.

In order to ensure the "lubrication" of the whole island trip, Tianli also invited a local tour guide to accompany him.

Asian faces, one question, turned out to be Chinese girls. They graduated from Wuhan University and had quite experienced qualifications. In the 90s of last century, they came to Mau Dao by their friends and worked as a trading company. Now a local travel agency is a tour guide.

According to her, there have been many days of profit list, and domestic Backpackers are also increasing.

Xiao Ding said that like he and the tour guide were Mao's new Chinese immigrants, Mao had more than 30000 descendants of the Qing Dynasty, mostly from Meixian, Guangdong. So far, they used to call the port of St. Louis the "PortLouis" in Cantonese.

According to Xiao Ding, as the economic and trade interaction between China and Mauritius is becoming more and more popular, it is estimated that the market of "bilingual talents" will also rise.

Mauritius is an immigrant Island, and 68% of its population is descendants of India and Pakistan.

The tour guide from China married a descendant of India. She had a very sweet life. The only thing that worries me is the daily cooking problem. The two tastes are hard to reconcile.

3000 registered enterprises made a springboard at 9 a.m. on May 7th. The trip to Mauritius station on the Sino African Trade expedition was almost over. Some entrepreneurs and journalists returned to South Africa.

At this point, a group of Chinese clothing and shoemaking owners were checking in the hotels where the entrepreneurs stayed. They said that this time they wanted to implement the warehouse in the cooperation zone with Tianli, so as to facilitate re export trade with nearby South Africa.

If the volume is large enough, exports to Europe and the United States will be more cost-effective, because there are more than 6000 customs products exported from the island to the United States.

In fact, Chinese people can often be seen in Mauritius.

Zhang Meifang is one of them. When the reporter saw her, she was working with her daughter and a daughter-in-law in three days to contact the workshop in the Tianli Economic and trade cooperation zone.

Zhang Meifang, from Heilongjiang, is actually a Fukien, but he is doing business in Harbin all the year round. He is now the vice president of the Fujian chamber of Commerce in Heilongjiang province.

During the Spring Festival this year, Zhang Meifang went to Mauritius for the first time to investigate investment opportunities. He stayed there for a month and made an in-depth market investigation on the food industry. Then he decided to invest.

In May, when he arrived in Mauritius, Zhang Meifang came with production equipment, and there were more than ten teachers and workers. The investment of about 1000000 yuan was so fast that Mauritius was becoming a springboard for Chinese enterprises to enter the African continent. At present, there are more than 3000 Chinese enterprises registered in Mao. It is because of such a foundation that Mauritius's "first overseas special economic zone" has been placed high hopes by many people.

Among the many people, the government of Mauritius included.

Rama Sithanen, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of finance of Mao state government, made clear in his collective interview with Chinese reporters that he hoped that Mauritius could complete the industrial restructuring with the help of the Tianli Economic and trade cooperation zone and grow into "Singapore in Africa".

It is known that Mauritius is an island country in the southwest of India ocean. It is about 800 kilometers west of Madagascar and 4827 kilometers east of Australia.

The coastline is 217 kilometers long.

It belongs to the subtropical marine climate, divided into two seasons in summer and winter, and it is humid and hot all the year round.

The annual average temperature in the coastal area is 25 degrees Celsius, and the central plateau is 20 degrees Celsius.

Originally a desert island, it was called "Mauritius" for Dutch rule in 1598.

In 1715, it was renamed "French island" by the French occupation, and became a British colony in 1814.

Since then, Britain has moved large numbers of slaves and prisoners from America, Africa and India to this reclamation.

In March 12, 1968, independence was declared and constitutional monarchy was adopted. The queen of England was the head of state.

The Republic was changed in March 1992.

Sugar industry is one of the main economic pillars of Mauritius island. Since eighteenth Century, sugarcane has been its main crop, its planting area accounts for about 90% of the annual cultivated land, and it is on Mauritius island.