Ethiopia Industrial Park With Strong Chinese Flavor

In an industrial park, the red billboards are written on the huge number of characters in the Oriental Industrial Park, and the Chinese flavor can be felt instantly.

Here is an industrial park invested by Chinese enterprises in Ethiopia. There are more than 30 Chinese companies in the park.

Building materials and other enterprises.

In the industrial park, a company called Huajian.

Tens of thousands of square meters of factory buildings operate side by side with several production lines. Thousands of Ethiopian workers operate well on the assembly line.

The shoe sole is made to the finished product, and the 40 processes needed for a pair of shoes depend on the local workers.

Zerihun Gmecu, 22, from nearby villages has worked for more than two years on the assembly line, and the monthly salary is more than 1000 Bill (about 306 yuan).

Without Chinese companies investing in Ethiopia, he might still be unemployed.

Tan Jun, assistant engineer of shoe factory, said there were more than 3000 local employees in the shoe factory, and the monthly salary of workers was 1000 Bill to 1500 Bill.

In recent years, the Ethiopian government has implemented the compulsory compulsory education policy and improved the cultural quality of the labor force. This is a necessary condition for Chinese enterprises to cooperate with them in production capacity.

Local staff who have received university education are easy to get managerial positions in the factory.

After graduating from University, he has worked in shoe factories for more than 4 years, and his monthly salary is more than 4000 Bill.

With fluent English and the local language of the United States, the company has become a bridge between Chinese managers and Ethiopian employees.

Chinese enterprises are not only interested in the labor resources of African countries such as Ethiopia, but also rich and cheap raw materials, which also save a lot of cost for the development of Chinese enterprises.

Ethiopia is located in the East African plateau. It has the reputation of "East African water tower". The water and grass are plentiful, and the per capita livestock occupies the highest rank in the world. It can provide more abundant, high-quality and cheap leather raw materials for shoemaking and garment enterprises.

Tan Jun said that there are many leather factories around the shoe factory, some of which are invested by Indians, and the leather needed by shoe factories can be easily purchased locally.

The machines on the production line are booming.

A pair of high-heeled shoes, flat shoes and boots are made through the process of operation, then packed, put in storage, waiting to be shipped to Europe or the American continent.

According to Tan Jun, shoe factories accept OEM production orders, and can produce up to 8000 pairs of shoes a day. These products are pported from Ethiopian large trucks to Djibouti port from Ethiopia and pported to Europe and the United States by sea.

"Future pportation will make full use of the railway built in China from the capital of Ethiopia to Djibouti port, which will shorten the time from shoe delivery to port arrival from two days to 8 hours, which will greatly save pportation costs," Tan Jun said.

In recent years, Chinese enterprises have taken an active part in infrastructure construction in Africa. Traffic conditions in some African countries have been improving. The railway network and highway network are extending, and the power guarantee is becoming more and more stable. This has further promoted the Chinese enterprises to invest in Africa and promoted the industrialization process of the African countries.

In the Eastern Industrial Park of Ethiopia, there are 64 enterprises stationed in China, 31 of which are put into operation, and the total investment amount is 220 million US dollars, so as to solve the employment of more than 8000 local people.

At the end of the interview, on the roadside back to Addisababa, the traditional local crops are green and yellow, and look like waves rolling under the white clouds.