Foreign media: Chinese workers are returning to Africa in large numbers, breaking the downward trend of the past decade and showing that China's focus on large-scale strategic projects in Africa is rebounding. According to data from the China-Africa Research Initiative (CARI) at Johns Hopkins University, there were 90,793 Chinese workers in Africa working on contracts and labor projects in 2024, an increase of about 4% compared to 87,078 in the previous year.
Since 2015, the number of Chinese workers in Africa has been continuously declining, reaching a peak of 263,696 in that year. Now, with the acceleration of investment by Chinese state-owned enterprises, the number of Chinese workers in key countries in Africa has increased again.
Last year, almost half of the Chinese workers were concentrated in five countries: 11,071 in Guinea, 9,694 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 8,170 in Egypt, 7,444 in Angola, and 6,035 in Nigeria.
CARI pointed out that the above statistics include only workers under formal national contracts, excluding other informal immigrants such as merchants or shopkeepers.
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