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Character sketch: Ali, 36 years old, an expat who started a business in Jiji. Although he has a Middle Eastern face, Ali speaks authentic Chinese. He was dressed in a gray "old man's shirt" and his open-toed sandals were stained with mud, no different from the local villagers. Today, he often helps the villagers to work, and is often invited to the villagers' homes to eat and drink tea, and has truly integrated into the village.
"Ali! You have become an Internet celebrity of our Zhang Xia!"
On the side of Wuzhuang Village, Zhangxia Street, Changqing District, a villager teased. He said "Ali," a Yemeni man who runs a factory in his village, is smiling shyly at the moment.
Villagers said ali became an internet celebrity, which originated from a short video. The video was taken a few days ago during a rainstorm in which Ali and another Yemenis rescued an old lady from a flood.
According to the employees of the factory, the rain fell very quickly that day, and the water entered the factory, and everyone was busy with the rescue. Suddenly, they heard someone shouting in the distance, and they hurried to follow the cry for help, and it turned out that an old lady was trapped in the house. The water outside the house has been waist-deep, Ali quickly swam over, carried the old lady to a high place, and returned to the factory after everything was settled, but at this time, a lot of equipment just purchased has been watered, ali loss is really not small.
After the video was posted online, netizens praised Ali. When he saw everyone's comments, he said embarrassedly: "The eldest lady is my family, why can I not help." ”
Yemeni lads have a "Chinese dream"
Many people heard that Ali was from Yemen and thought he had come to China to escape the war in his hometown. In fact, he has been in China for 18 years and in Jinan for 16 years.
At first, he was just a "backpacker" who came to China alone, but now he has his own business in Jinan.
There are many expatriates who have lived in China for a long time, but entrepreneurs like Ali, who have been self-made and have been staying for nearly 20 years, should be regarded as a special group. Because they are often more difficult than other expats, because the differences between Chinese and foreign cultures determine that the entrepreneurial process must be challenging. Ali was able to overcome all kinds of things and become a "family" with the people of Jinan, which makes us wonder what he experienced in China and Jinan.
"In my hometown of Yemen, there is no condition for industrial development, just take the manufacture of auto parts, the lack of upstream and downstream, can not form an industrial chain." The industrial products made in China are very marketable in our place, high quality and low price, and I was very eager for here at that time, and I wanted to come to China to break in. Ali, who only had a backpack and did not understand a word of Chinese, went to Guangzhou alone and started foreign trade work. He has helped many Chinese brands open up the Middle East market, and also let more Middle Easterners use Chinese products.
Ali and his Jinan "brother"
In 2006, Ali became an agent of Sinotruk in the Middle East market, that is, during this period, he came to Jinan and met his good partner in his later work, the "brother" in life - The old grandson of Jinan.
At that time, Ali needed to order a batch of sealing rings, because he was afraid that the supplier's grandson would cut corners, he deliberately reported the size of a circle, and the result could be imagined: this batch of sealing rings was wasted due to excessive size. "Brother Sun told me that in our case, you can rest assured that you should have as much as you want." This experience made Ali discover: Shandong people are really honest!
Lao Sun taught Ali to speak Chinese, so much so that Ali now speaks with a "Zipp" flavor; Lao Sun took Ali to the streets and alleys to taste Jinan's special food, and now Ali's favorite food is the kebabs of the Muslim community; Lao Sun told Ali that Chinese society pays attention to human feelings, and Ali is more comfortable in dealing with customers...
"I also have an older brother who introduced me to many job opportunities." Many years ago, Ali once left Jinan to develop in other places, but his business failed, and he was penniless at the most difficult time. At that time, Lao Gao gave him a sum of money and said to him: "Go back to Jinan, brothers are waiting for you." ”
"The emotion of that moment cannot be described, I have a home, someone remembers." Since then, Ali has never left Jinan, and he feels that it is safe and warm here.
"Jinan is my home"
Thousands of kilometres from Yemen, Ali started a family on the land he loved. He married a girl from Jinan and gave birth to a lovely son.
In 2020, Ali wants to start its own business, develop and produce environmentally friendly green materials and air conditioning filters. He heard that the Jinan government has a special department to help foreigners start businesses in the local area, so he found the Changqing District Investment Promotion Bureau, and then contacted the Zhangxia Street Investment Office, and after multi-party coordination, the problem of factory site selection was quickly solved.
"I thought that only the kind of foreign investment projects that cost billions of yuan would attract the local government." I didn't expect a project as small as mine to receive their meticulous care. Shi Chuanfeng, director of the Zhangxia Street Investment Office, became Ali's exclusive "chief service ambassador" and provided him with entrepreneurial assistance throughout the process. In the past two days, when he learned that the plant was flooded, Shi Chuanfeng immediately came to the factory to check the situation and help Ali apply for post-disaster subsidies.
Ali admits that as a foreign entrepreneur, he does not understand the policies and regulations, which often makes him "crazy". "For example, before I was anxious to pay my employees, but the various materials that needed to be submitted made me 'big'!" He thought of asking for help from the Changqing District Investment Promotion Bureau, and the staff member Feng Yaping quickly arrived at the scene to help him complete the formalities smoothly, and the employees also received their salaries on the same day.
At present, Ali is encountering difficulties in recruiting workers, Shi Chuanfeng contacted college teachers, and used his personal connections to try every means to help Ali recruit employees. Old Xue, a villager who lives in Ali's opposite door, used to work as an electrician, and now he is more than 70 years old, regardless of pay, he also wants to help Ali. Many employees in the factory, also nearby villagers, in order to help Ali recruit workers, they posted recruitment notices on their cars.
Seeing this, it is not difficult to understand why Ali would regard The people of Jinan as his family.