A new tide of emigration occurs in China!

A new tide of emigration occurs in China!
Nov 22, 2012 01:18
RAINDROP Points: Join Date: Aug 24, 2009 Status: offline	In the public eye, she is a successful and wealthy woman. From 1989 to 1991, she went to Canada to earn money. Her first job was to wash dishes at the restaurants. She worked around 16 hours in four restaurants per day and earned 3.5 USD per hour. Two years later, she earned around 20000 USD and got the permission to be a permanent resident in Canada. However, she didn’t stay but came back to China. She opened a small restaurant in Beijing. Then years later, she accumulated six million RMB and founded Qiao Jiang Nan, a high-end restaurant whose target customers are white collars. It is said that her personal wealth has reached 1.5 billion RMB. Recently, Zhang Lan has been in trouble. Her former staff sued her to the court and asked her to fulfill her promise to transfer a house property to him. The court served a summons on her but the summons was returned because Zhang already cancelled her Hu Kou. Why? It has been confirmed that she has become a citizen of a foreign country. Although Zhang is not a Chinese, she is still a political consultative in Chaoyang District, Beijing. However, China doesn’t accept dual nationalities. If she becomes a foreigner, she is not a Chinese anymore. Thus, she shouldn’t have been a political consultative. Nowadays, more and more rich Chinese people have emigrated to Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other foreign countries. According to a report published by China Merchant Bank and Bain & Co., 27 percent of the entrepreneurs whose personal wealth exceed 100 million RMB have transplanted abroad and 47 percent are considering emigration. Zhang Lan is just one example. Except the rich people, some Chinese officials also transplant their relatives abroad. They stay in China and ‘serve the people’ but their wives and kids already leave China. Everyone has his/her freedom to emigrate. But why some of them transplant abroad secretly at last after saying many times they won’t emigrate? Strange phenomenon!

Nov 22, 2012 01:18

RAINDROP
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In the public eye, she is a successful and wealthy woman. From 1989 to 1991, she went to Canada to earn money. Her first job was to wash dishes at the restaurants. She worked around 16 hours in four restaurants per day and earned 3.5 USD per hour. Two years later, she earned around 20000 USD and got the permission to be a permanent resident in Canada. However, she didn’t stay but came back to China. She opened a small restaurant in Beijing. Then years later, she accumulated six million RMB and founded Qiao Jiang Nan, a high-end restaurant whose target customers are white collars. It is said that her personal wealth has reached 1.5 billion RMB.

Recently, Zhang Lan has been in trouble. Her former staff sued her to the court and asked her to fulfill her promise to transfer a house property to him. The court served a summons on her but the summons was returned because Zhang already cancelled her Hu Kou. Why? It has been confirmed that she has become a citizen of a foreign country.

Although Zhang is not a Chinese, she is still a political consultative in Chaoyang District, Beijing. However, China doesn’t accept dual nationalities. If she becomes a foreigner, she is not a Chinese anymore. Thus, she shouldn’t have been a political consultative.

Nowadays, more and more rich Chinese people have emigrated to Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other foreign countries. According to a report published by China Merchant Bank and Bain & Co., 27 percent of the entrepreneurs whose personal wealth exceed 100 million RMB have transplanted abroad and 47 percent are considering emigration. Zhang Lan is just one example.

Except the rich people, some Chinese officials also transplant their relatives abroad. They stay in China and ‘serve the people’ but their wives and kids already leave China.

Everyone has his/her freedom to emigrate. But why some of them transplant abroad secretly at last after saying many times they won’t emigrate? Strange phenomenon!

Nov 22, 2012 01:59	#1
WANHU Points: Join Date: Feb 20, 2007 Status: Offline	Permanent resident (PR) is not a citizen of that particular country. Secondly she is still a Chinese although she may not be a citizen of China. Wan

Nov 22, 2012 21:50	#2
RAINDROP Points: Join Date: Aug 24, 2009 Status: Offline	I am not sure if she wants to escape punishment by Chinese law in this way, or planed her migration for a long time and this court issue is a coincidence only. In most Chinese eyes, developed countries offer more comfortable living style and their citizens enjoy their the most civilized life. The education system is the most attractive aspect for them. This phenomenon is China's pity.

Nov 22, 2012 22:04

GUESTMARIA

If they cannot stay 2 years during the consecutive 5 years, PR status would be rovoked. Restaurants have satiated in nice Chinese neighborhoods, that is high- end ones are almost monoplized by Honkongnese and a few Shanghainese. It's hard for them to survive. BTW , who is she, Zhanglan?

It's not news that rich Chinese migrate ride the waves of migration overseas, which occured a decade ago. What they do is just buying houses and renting them until getting old enough to get old age security and enjoying free health care. Do the foreign government like that?

Nov 23, 2012 00:32	#4
GLOOMYSUNDAY Points: Join Date: Jul 23, 2008 Status: Offline	She is Zhanglan, the owner of Qiao Jiang Nan, a high-end restaurant in China.

Nov 23, 2012 00:48	#5
GLOOMYSUNDAY Points: Join Date: Jul 23, 2008 Status: Offline	Zhanghan was famous also because of her son's marriage last year. The girl, named Xu Xiyuan, is a star from Taiwan.

Nov 23, 2012 20:33	#6
GUESTCLAUDIA	Still who are those three persons though? The guy seems to me a cook and the older woman a cashier sitting at the cash register and the younger one a waitress. They make me think of a northern chinese noodle and Jao Zi attended stall set up by migrant workers at street food court in my homecity...We usually call them A XIANG or BA ZI...hahaha

Nov 23, 2012 20:43	#7
GUESTMARIA	GuestCla, please show respect even though those three are nobody...BTW, thread header, I don't see that your thesis statement has anytning to do with this lady who originally was an illegal worker overseas...

Nov 25, 2012 01:40

CHERRY07
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I‘d like to know why they move out of China and become foreigners. They make good fortune in China but choose to leave after they gain much wealth. Don't they feel happy in China? Do they feel unsafe?

Do those 'naked officials' have the same thought like those rich people? In my opinions, Chinese officials should have been prohibited to emigrate. Some corrupted officials receive millions of money when they are in position and then transfter the money, their wives and children abroad. Or officials whose wives and children emigrate abroad should not be put in some key positions.

Nov 25, 2012 10:13	#9
EMERALD7 Points: Join Date: Oct 31, 2012 Status: Offline	cherry. they would or have got litigation trouble financially before migrating overseas..in foreign land ..they r low key n dont work ...normally the r around 50 to 60 yr old, the legacy of chinese culture revolution that left a generation without formal education background but full of boldness. a changing n immature sociaty gives the chance to this paticular legacy generation...sigh...

Nov 25, 2012 20:45	#10
BBQQ Points: Join Date: Feb 7, 2007 Status: Offline	Cherry, That's why some people suggest officials make their properties and incomes in public. They think this is helpful when dealing with corruption. Well, I don't believe this can cope with corruption. They ignore that some officials have income from moonlighting.

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