1. Malawi is one of the poorest countries in Africa, with a per capita daily income of only more than 10 yuan, but Malawi is a country that implements free medical care and free education for all.
2. Malawi is a landlocked country located in southeastern Africa. Malawi covers an area of 118,000 square kilometers, has a population of about 20 million, and has an average life expectancy of less than 50 years. Malawi is one of the poorest countries in Africa and has been named one of the 25 least backward countries in the world by the United Nations.
3. Malawi is particularly friendly to Chinese, mainly because China helped Malawi to build many projects, such as the Parliament Building in Malawi, with a total construction area of 26,000 square meters, which was built by a construction company in Anhui, China, and completed in only one and a half years. Many of Malawi's highways, gymnasiums, five-star hotels, university of science and technology, and many other buildings were built by China. As a sign of respect and remembrance, Malawis have printed China's aid projects on their national currency.
4. Lilongwe is the second largest city in Malawi and the capital of Malawi, where Chinese-made goods can be seen everywhere. For example, there are many supermarkets, restaurants, clothing stores, mobile phone stores, hardware stores, shoe stores and so on that operate in Lilongwe, which Chinese.
Malawi people are particularly fond of buying and using Chinese-made goods because they believe that Chinese-made goods are particularly practical and affordable, and for Malawi people with low incomes, Chinese-made goods are their best choice.
Malawi people like China's second-hand clothing, China will eliminate a large number of second-hand clothing every year, these second-hand clothing will be exported to African countries, due to the relatively low wage income, most Malawi people can not afford to buy new clothing, so they can only buy cheaper second-hand clothing. Malawi people like to wear Chinese-made clothing, especially if the clothing is printed with Chinese characters, which is a favorite of Malawians.
5. Malawi is economically backward and is one of the poorest countries in Africa, with a per capita annual income of only about RMB 5,000. In the wealthy areas of Malawi, there are many locals who work as nannies and security guards, who cook three meals a day and clean all the hygiene of the home, and the security guards are mainly responsible for maintaining the safety of the rich and preventing thieves from coming to steal. People who work as nannies and security guards in Malawi have a relatively easy job, with a monthly salary of 300 yuan.
In Malawi, there are many adult men working odd jobs on construction sites, working more than 10 hours a day for a daily salary of 15 yuan. The small workers on these construction sites are very inefficient, if there is no one to supervise them, they will often be lazy, and these construction workers can not work for 30 days a month, and some people always need to take leave for various reasons, so the monthly salary of these construction workers is only more than 300 yuan.
In Malawi, there are also many locals engaged in painting and painting, all in the most primitive way of working, workers with small brushes dipped in paint buckets to paint doors and windows, need to work more than 10 hours a day, a day's salary of 20 yuan. These painters never wear masks when they work, they just think the paint smells bad, and they never think so much about their health.
In Malawi, there are many factories that Chinese invest in the construction and operation of, such as food processing factories and slipper factories and garment factories, which also recruit local Malawi employees, depending on the position they work in the factory, the wages of each worker are different, usually the Malawi workers in these factories are paid about 600 yuan per month.
6. The monthly income of Malawi people is not high, and the local price is also very cheap, such as fresh beef as long as 15 yuan a catty, fresh lamb as long as 12 yuan a catty, the price of rice in Malawi is somewhat expensive, each catty needs about five yuan, because the yield of local rice planted mu is not very high. Some tropical fruits are also cheap in Malawi, such as bananas in Malawi can be bought for 3 yuan.
In Malawi's wet markets, most of the vendors do not use scales when selling things, and local stallholders like to sell items one by one, or a small pile of them, such as an egg for a dollar, a tomato for fifty cents, and so on. In the wet market, only some stalls selling meat can see the scale, after all, the price of meat food is higher than other goods.
7. Many people have a question, that is, the income of Malawi people is very low, and the money they earn every month is enough for the whole family to spend? In fact, as long as you can find a job in Malawi, the problem of food and clothing can definitely be solved. For example, the locals like to eat Xima, is also the traditional staple food of the Malawi people, Xima is the powder after corn polishing, the price of corn flour in Malawi is one yuan per kilogram, an ordinary family of four, a month with 100 kilograms of corn flour can solve the problem of food and clothing.
8. Malawi girls have a very simple personality, because the level of education is generally relatively low, most Of the Malawian girls marry quickly after adulthood, and then marry and teach their children at home. The women in Malawi are physically fit and feel overwhelmed, and Malawian girls can easily carry a bag of 50 kilograms of corn flour on their heads and walk quickly.
Malawian girls do not need a bride price when they get married, but the man will also send some cattle or sheep to the woman's parents, and if the man's family is more economical, he will also buy some gold jewelry and some new clothing for the woman. Polygamy still exists in Malawi, but in order to reduce unnecessary quarrels, wives live alone after marriage and do not live together.
9. The University of Malawi was established in 1964 and is by far the highest university in Malawi. Malawi has more than 1,000 secondary schools and more than 5,000 primary schools, with a total teaching force of just over 20,000. Malawi's primary school is eight years and secondary school is four years, and students can enjoy free education at the primary school level, and after secondary school, they need to receive education at their own expense.
In Malawi, free primary education is available to everyone, rich or poor, so most Malawis basically drop out of school after primary school, and boys can choose to help their parents do some odd jobs when they return home, or they can choose to do some odd jobs elsewhere to earn money to supplement their families. Girls who drop out of school and come home basically help their parents to wash and cook, take care of their younger brothers and sisters by the way, and then meet the right person and marry a wife.
10. Malawi is a country with free medical care for all, residents who are sick and hospitalized only need to go to a community hospital or public hospital to buy a medical record and then pay a small outpatient fee, and the rest of the treatment hospitalization and even surgery and so on are all free, and the hospital will also provide patients with a free lunch. Although Malawi people enjoy free medical care, as long as there is an economic basis, people prefer to go to private hospitals for treatment, because the medical conditions in Malawi's public hospitals are very backward.
11. Because of economic backwardness, there are many people in Malawi who can only get by receiving relief goods, so in some villages in Malawi, you can often see the clothes and shoes worn by many children, regardless of style and color, because these clothes and shoes are donated by caring organizations from all over the world.
12. There are many Indians in Malawi, especially in the wealthy areas of Malawi, where at least 80% of the inhabitants are Indians. There are many food factories and hardware factories in Malawi that are operated by Indians, who have been doing business in Malawi for decades, and they have migrated to the past and slowly settled down.
13. Malawi is a country with an agricultural economy as the pillar, the arable land area accounts for 38% of the country's land, the main food crops are white corn, sorghum, millet, cassava kite, the main cash crops are tea, sugarcane and so on. Because sugarcane production is abundant, some Chinese have chosen to invest in the construction of confectionery factories in Malawi, which not only solves the employment problem in Malawi, but also brings a lot of contributions to the local economic development.
14.In recent years, Malawi and China have cooperated in many areas, especially in Malawi's construction projects, where at least 80% of them are Chinese. And in some Chinese factories in Malawi, the monthly salary for local employees is also ideal, and some small benefits are issued every New Year's Holiday, so more and more Malawians want to work in factories Chinese investment. Chinese is still very popular in Malawi, mainly because China has helped them a lot.