The Chinese are coming!
Jul 5th 2011 | 7:51 pm
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The Chinese are coming!
Spain to ease visa requirements on Chinese tourists - hoping to attract 1 million Chinese tourists:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...3e05884cf1.6a1
Not sure this will happen as planned. Either it'll be a damp squib, or many times more than 1 million will take this opportunity. Interesting times.
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...3e05884cf1.6a1
MADRID — Spain, Europe's second-most visited country after France, aims to welcome one million Chinese tourists in 2020, the government said Tuesday.
The country received 89,523 Chinese tourists in 2009, the last year for which figures are available, and Tourism Minister Miguel Sebastian said this figure should rise to 300,000 in 2012.
To increase the number of visitors from China, Spain plans to ease visa requirements for Chinese nationals, encourage more direct flights between the two countries and open more tourist offices in the Asian giant, he added.
The government also plans to publish guides about Spain in mandarin and encourage restaurants and hotels to offer foods and opening hours that are more suited to Chinese tastes
The country received 89,523 Chinese tourists in 2009, the last year for which figures are available, and Tourism Minister Miguel Sebastian said this figure should rise to 300,000 in 2012.
To increase the number of visitors from China, Spain plans to ease visa requirements for Chinese nationals, encourage more direct flights between the two countries and open more tourist offices in the Asian giant, he added.
The government also plans to publish guides about Spain in mandarin and encourage restaurants and hotels to offer foods and opening hours that are more suited to Chinese tastes
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Jul 5th 2011 | 8:02 pm
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Re: The Chinese are coming!
Perhaps they will all be attracted to all these lovely Chinese shops where they can buy products they are familiar with and speak the same language.
I can't imagine us Plucky Brits doing something like that
I can't imagine us Plucky Brits doing something like that
Jul 5th 2011 | 8:05 pm
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Re: The Chinese are coming!
Jul 5th 2011 | 8:39 pm
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Spooky! Just read this minutes ago about the new Chinese shops in Madrid.
http://www.abc.es/fotos-abc/20110706...lla-80140.html
http://www.abc.es/fotos-abc/20110706...lla-80140.html
Jul 5th 2011 | 8:49 pm
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Jul 5th 2011 | 9:31 pm
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Re: The Chinese are coming!
I heard that China had bailed out Spain and were also about to give financial assistance to UK businesses????
They've come along way - good on em!
Jo xxx
They've come along way - good on em!
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Jul 5th 2011 | 11:22 pm
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Re: The Chinese are coming!
Spooky! Just read this minutes ago about the new Chinese shops in Madrid.
http://www.abc.es/fotos-abc/20110706...lla-80140.html
http://www.abc.es/fotos-abc/20110706...lla-80140.html
Jul 5th 2011 | 11:31 pm
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Re: The Chinese are coming!
you mean it hasn't got one already - must be a down market town
i would rather have a chinese\cantonese meal than a curry (shudder), but recently have found their restaurants very cold so wouldn't like their electricity bill for the aircon
i would rather have a chinese\cantonese meal than a curry (shudder), but recently have found their restaurants very cold so wouldn't like their electricity bill for the aircon
Jul 5th 2011 | 11:34 pm
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Re: The Chinese are coming!
The Russian Communist takeover was by force but the Chinese are doing it via the shops and restaurants.
Jul 6th 2011 | 1:50 am
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Re: The Chinese are coming!
Producing sub standard products using an oppressed workforce, denying basic human rights, bypassing huge research and development costs stealing designs from other manufacturers and making their own cheap copies. Keeping their currency artificially low on the world's exchanges insures that there is no level playing field for foreign competition. Add to this burning fossil fuels with no regard to the environment
Not so sure good on em is the sort of encouragement people should be giving these people until they decide to contribute to the welfare of this planet rather than killing it
Jul 6th 2011 | 1:56 am
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Re: The Chinese are coming!
You may want to question how they accumulated this new found wealth.
Producing sub standard products using an oppressed workforce, denying basic human rights, bypassing huge research and development costs stealing designs from other manufacturers and making their own cheap copies. Keeping their currency artificially low on the world's exchanges insures that there is no level playing field for foreign competition. Add to this burning fossil fuels with no regard to the environment
Not so sure good on em is the sort of encouragement people should be giving these people until they decide to contribute to the welfare of this planet rather than killing it
Producing sub standard products using an oppressed workforce, denying basic human rights, bypassing huge research and development costs stealing designs from other manufacturers and making their own cheap copies. Keeping their currency artificially low on the world's exchanges insures that there is no level playing field for foreign competition. Add to this burning fossil fuels with no regard to the environment
Not so sure good on em is the sort of encouragement people should be giving these people until they decide to contribute to the welfare of this planet rather than killing it
Jo xxx
Jul 6th 2011 | 2:02 am
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Re: The Chinese are coming!
You may want to question how they accumulated this new found wealth.
Producing sub standard products using an oppressed workforce, denying basic human rights, bypassing huge research and development costs stealing designs from other manufacturers and making their own cheap copies. Keeping their currency artificially low on the world's exchanges insures that there is no level playing field for foreign competition. Add to this burning fossil fuels with no regard to the environment
Not so sure good on em is the sort of encouragement people should be giving these people until they decide to contribute to the welfare of this planet rather than killing it
Producing sub standard products using an oppressed workforce, denying basic human rights, bypassing huge research and development costs stealing designs from other manufacturers and making their own cheap copies. Keeping their currency artificially low on the world's exchanges insures that there is no level playing field for foreign competition. Add to this burning fossil fuels with no regard to the environment
Not so sure good on em is the sort of encouragement people should be giving these people until they decide to contribute to the welfare of this planet rather than killing it
Russia has its oligarch's who have come out of nowhere to have incomes greater than a number of stable small countries (Abramovich) . China is also going that way.
But then I am sure some cynic will tell me it sounds like the British Empire of Victorian times.
Sorry, no longer have the time or inclination to worry about it any longer. Used to over the past 50 years after I found out what politics was but no one is going to change the way things have gone letalone how they are going for the future. Just grin and bare it.
Jul 6th 2011 | 2:10 am
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Re: The Chinese are coming!
was actually speaking from first hand experience.... In 2001 I was invited to a trade show...in 2002 I went back to the same trade show in Berlin and my manufacturer had all their new models out of sight behind curtains as the chinese manufacturers had taken pictures the previous year and now turned up armed with replicas of their entire range
I do my best to avoid wasting my money on substandard Chinese goods and funny enough, judging by the huge interest in German Kitchen appliances I sell to customers in China, so do they when they have the choice.
I do my best to avoid wasting my money on substandard Chinese goods and funny enough, judging by the huge interest in German Kitchen appliances I sell to customers in China, so do they when they have the choice.
