"China Industrial Park" Is Developing Rapidly In Ethiopia, Local Shoe Making And Other Industries.

Ethiopia has upgraded industrialization to national development strategy, and has built industrial parks and undertake China's capacity pfer as an important support for industrialization.

Driving to the southeast of Addisababa, capital of Ethiopia, about 20 minutes later, beside a highway, several huge billboards were very conspicuous. The above is introduced in Chinese and English. This is the Conlin Industrial Park constructed by Chinese company, covering 279 hectares.

Dozens of large bulldozers and excavators are working on the site of the park.

After the completion of the industrial park, a large number of Chinese enterprises will be settled.

This is a microcosm of Chinese enterprises' participation in the industrialization process of African countries along the belt road.

In recent years, Ethiopia has invested a lot of money in promoting the construction of industrial parks, and strives for a balanced distribution throughout the country. It guarantees that the 9 National States and 2 Special Administrative Regions in the country can make full use of the role of industry in promoting economic development and solving employment problems.

It is less than 10 kilometers from KL to the southwest, and tens of thousands of square meters of factory buildings are rising.

The light industrial city is being built and operated by a private enterprise called Huajian in China.

Zhang Huarong, chairman of Huajian group, told the global magazine that the total investment of the light industrial city is 1 billion US dollars, covering a total area of more than 130 hectares, with a construction area of 160 hectares. It is planned to be completed in 2020. It is expected to generate 2 billion US dollars per year, providing 50 thousand ~6 million jobs, and will also drive China's domestic light industrial enterprises to go out and develop in the African cluster.

Zhang Huarong said that the future light industry city will take Huajian shoes industry as the leading factor, and introduce garment, electronics, leather, luggage and other processing enterprises to promote the pformation from single processing to comprehensive park.

In recent years, with the implementation of China's "one belt and one way" initiative and the continuous development of Sino African capacity cooperation, and under the guidance of Ethiopia's vigorous development of industry, more than 10 industrial parks built and operated by Chinese funded companies in Ethiopia have further promoted the entry of Chinese private enterprises into Ethiopia.

The Oriental Industrial Park, which is invested and operated by Ethiopian private enterprise in Ethiopia, has now settled in about 30 Chinese enterprises, involving steel, pharmaceutical, textile, automobile assembly and other industries.

When the construction of industrial parks is completed, labor-intensive and export oriented enterprises will be given priority. These enterprises can not only enjoy the preferential tax revenue provided by the Ethiopian government, but also make full use of the cheap labor and rich raw materials of esse to save the cost greatly.

Al Cabet, chairman of Ethiopia Industrial Park Development Company, pointed out that Ethiopia is rich in labor resources, and has 45 million young labor reserves. Its annual labor force is about 2 million 300 thousand. The development of manufacturing has obvious advantages and huge potential.

In Huajian shoemaking factory, there are several production lines running side by side in the tens of thousands of square meters of workshops. Thousands of Ethiopian workers are skillfully operated on the production line, and from shoe upper and sole to finished products, all the 40 processes needed for a pair of shoes are completed by 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, told reporters that there are more than 3000 local employees in the shoe factory, and the monthly salary of workers is 1000~1500 Bill.

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

University educated local staff easily get management 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.

The boots are made through the process of operation, then packed and stored, waiting to be shipped to Europe or the Americas.

According to Tan Jun, shoe factories accept orders from European and American enterprises.

It can produce up to 8000 pairs of shoes a day, which are pported from Ethiopian lorries to Djibouti port and pported to Europe and the United States by sea.

It is understood that in addition to the Dongfang Industrial Park, the industrial park of the clay mine and the industrial park of Huajian light industrial park, the Ethiopian government is also building more than 10 other industrial parks throughout the country, mainly along the Asian Railway.

The Asian Railway is the first African electrified railway constructed by a Chinese company. It is located in Addisababa, the capital of Ethiopia in the west, and more than 750 kilometers to the capital of Djibouti, Djibouti.

Many of the industrial parks planned by the Ethiopian government along the Asian Railway are funded by Chinese companies.

In recent years, the Ethiopian government is committed to the pformation of industrial development and economic structure, hoping to become the manufacturing center of Africa. At present, Ethiopia has upgraded industrialization to a national development strategy, and has built industrial parks and undertake China's capacity pfer as a major support for industrialization.

In order to promote employment through industrial development and earn foreign exchange for export and make further efficient use of foreign capital, the Ethiopian Investment Commission has issued the "Ethiopia Investment Guide (2015 Edition)", which further clarified that the strategic focus of industrial development was focused on the priority areas of industrial development strategy such as manufacturing exports, textile and garment, leather and leather products, agricultural products processing, and small enterprises and micro enterprises.

Ethiopia is not simply relying on foreign enterprises to promote its industrialization process, and to foster local industrialization strength is an important consideration of the government.

Huajian

Zeng Li Chao, director of the city's external liaison department, told reporters that the Ethiopian government has strengthened the restrictions on some foreign investment enterprises in recent years to provide room for the development of local enterprises, and at the same time requires foreign-funded enterprises to increase their training in management and technical personnel of Ethiopia, so as to cultivate talents for the development of their own enterprises.

Ceng Lizhuo introduced entrepreneurs in Ethiopian local shoe making industries and other industries in recent years, often patronizing industrial parks, showing keen interest in learning advanced technology and management experience in China, hoping to expand the scale of local enterprises and pform backward production conditions.

Over the past more than 10 years, the Ethiopia economy has basically maintained a two digit growth rate. Even in recent years, the African economies are generally in a downturn and the domestic drought disaster is severe. The outlook of the world economic situation released by the United Nations still predicts that the GDP growth rate of Ethiopia in 2017 and 2018 will reach 7% and 7.4% respectively.

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