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Chinese companies hold career fairs in South Africa's Free State Province
By Lu Anqi  ·2019-03-20

A career fair to help students find employment opportunities with Chinese enterprises was held on March 16 in Parys, a city in the northeast Free State Province of South Africa.

More than 100 students turned up to register, many of them with international study experience.

A total of 45 well-known Chinese companies, including the China Construction Bank, Bank of China, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Huawei, China Telecom, ZTE, CRRC, China-Africa Development Fund, Skyworth, New Hope Group, Tong Ren Tang and China Mall took part in the fair.

Consul General of the Chinese Consulate General in Johannesburg Ruan Ping delivers a speech at the opening of the career fair (LI JIANGUO)

The Consul General of the Chinese Consulate General in Johannesburg Ruan Ping, Deputy Consul General Gu Bin and African National Congress Secretary General Ace Magashule were in attendance.

In his opening address, Ruan said that the China-South Africa relations boasts the four advantages of political mutual trust, mutually beneficial economic and trade cooperation, people-to-people friendship, and international coordination. These advantages are supported by four cooperation platforms, namely, the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, BRICS cooperation, the Belt and Road Initiative and South-South Cooperation, and these relations have brought tangible benefits to the two peoples.

Ruan said that Chinese companies not only benefit from the development of the China-South Africa relationship, but also are the key builders and contributors to it.

“I am very pleased to see that the Chinese businesses strictly observe the laws of South Africa, comply with the Black Economic Empowerment regulations, pay attention to technology transfer and staff training, live in harmony with the local people, fulfil their social responsibilities, and give back to the local society,” said Ruan.

He pointed out that despite the ups and downs of South Africa’s economy in recent years, Chinese companies have made continuous efforts and investment not only in economic production but also in the localization of employees. China has so far, in accumulative terms, invested over $25 billion in South Africa, creating over 400,000 local jobs and contributed large amount of taxes.

Ruan welcomed the students at the fair and said the cooperation between China and South Africa was inclusive instead of exclusive.

 

Ace Magashule, Secretary General of African National Congress, encourages students to be creative and try to become job creators (LI JIANGUO) 

Magashule said that Chinese people and South Africans have a special relationship.

“Chinese people were there during the Apartheid times, and when we build and develop South Africa, they are our most reliable friends in the world,” he said.

He told students that they should market themselves, sit down and talk with Chinese companies, and network as much as possible.

Magashule encouraged students to set their sights on becoming an employer and not be satisfied with being an employee.

The career fair was one of the economic and cultural exchange events jointly organized by the Chinese Consulate General in Johannesburg and the South African Tumahole Legacy Foundation.

 

Students waiting in a queue at the China Telecom South Africa company’s desk (LI JIANGUO) 

 

 

Huawei South Africa staff meet with student applicants (LI JIANGUO) 

 

 

CRRC receives students seeking job opportunities (LI JIANGUO) 

 

 

Companies specializing in infrastructure construction are the focus of attention at the career fair (LI JIANGUO)

 

 

Students complete forms at the Bank of China desk (LI JIANGUO) 

Allied to the career fair, on March 15, CEOs and executives from the 45 Chinese companies and more than 20 local entrepreneurs held an economic trade symposium, introducing their own respective advantages and proposed cooperation intentions and projects.

 

Chinese and South African entrepreneurs at the South Africa-China Economic Trade Symposium (LI JIANGUO) 

The symposium helped to facilitate business between Chinese companies and their South African counterparts, people-to-people relations as well as business opportunities for black business, said Magashule.

A charity golf tournament was held before the symposium.

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