{"id":647032,"date":"2025-12-21T21:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T21:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/647032\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T21:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T21:38:13","slug":"chinese-workers-return-to-africa-as-lucrative-job-opportunities-beckon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/647032\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese workers return to Africa as lucrative job opportunities beckon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese workers are returning to Africa in their thousands, reversing a decade-long decline and signalling a renewed focus on <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3335984\/china-built-headquarters-15-member-economic-bloc-strengthens-ties-west-africa?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">strategic mega-projects<\/a> across the continent.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In 2024, there were 90,793 Chinese workers on contracted projects and labour services on the continent, an increase of about 4 per cent over the 87,078 recorded the previous year, according to data from the China Africa Research Initiative (CARI) at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Now, as investment flows accelerate, mostly driven by Chinese state-owned enterprises, worker numbers are once again increasing in key countries across Africa.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Last year, nearly half of all Chinese workers on the continent were concentrated in five nations, namely Guinea (11,071), the Democratic Republic of Congo (9,694), Egypt (8,170), Angola (7,444) and Nigeria (6,035).<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">CARI clarifies that these statistics track personnel on formal state contracts, while excluding the broader population of informal migrants, including traders and shopkeepers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese workers are returning to Africa in their thousands, reversing a decade-long decline and signalling a renewed focus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[2740,28898,3801,71499,51,198405,16536,198402,1700,321,52294,198400,198401,198404,2744,3007,198403,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-647032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-angola","10":"tag-beijing","11":"tag-belt-and-road-initiative","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-china-africa-research-initiative-cari","14":"tag-chinese","15":"tag-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-dr-congo","16":"tag-economy","17":"tag-egypt","18":"tag-ethiopia","19":"tag-guinea","20":"tag-johns-hopkins-school-of-advanced-international-studies-sais","21":"tag-kai-xue","22":"tag-niger","23":"tag-nigeria","24":"tag-simandou-iron-ore-venture","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115759724035867970","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}