A chinese shoe manufacturer relocates its assembly lines to ethiopia and stimulates the growth of the country’s manufacturing sector

Amazing China, a 90-minute documentary which focuses on China’s accomplishments over the past five years, has been a huge success at the box office since it hit the screens in China on March 2. One scene,in particular, struck a chord with audiences when Zhang Huarong, Chairman of Chinese shoemaker Huajian Group, sang the Chinese song Unity Is Strength with Ethiopian employees in the group’s Ethiopian factory.

In the same film, there is a young Ethiopian man named after a Chinese metropolitan city, Guangzhou, who says that he feels proud to work for Huajian. He notes that he derives happiness from the good corporate culture, the elaborate training system and the company’s willingness to share bene fits with employees.

关于旅游产业概念的界定，由于研究的角度不同，所得出的结论也自然不同，但共识性的因素主要是围绕着“旅游资源”、“旅游设施”、“旅游服务”等。所以对旅游产业概念可以表述为：“以旅游者为对象，借助旅游资源和旅游设施，满足旅游者在旅游活动中的吃、住、行、游、娱、购等需求，来实现旅游者精神和物质追求的综合性产业”[3]。

Indeed, Huajian employees receive hands-on training from experienced mentors and have access to executive positions through promotion. Owing to effective labor division systems, Huajian’s employees, make about 8,000 pairs of shoes every day.

Founded in 1996 in Dongguan City in south China’s Guangdong Province, Huajian Group is one of the world’s largest women shoemakers. Among its clients are famous American and European brands which include Guess, Nine West and Marc Fisher. As China deepened its economic reform and widened its overseas markets,Huajian became part of this process and sought markets abroad.

The Ethiopian Government set a target to transform the country into a middleincome state by 2025.To this end, it hoped to attract more Chinese manufacturers whose expertise, technical support and financial input could improve its manufacturing sector and boost its economy.

Workers in Huajian International Shoe City (Ethiopia)

Meanwhile, Ethiopia also set the course on industrialization by boosting its manufacturing sector. The Ethiopian Government set a target to transform the country into a middle-income state by 2025. To this end,it hoped to attract more Chinese manufacturers whose expertise, technical support and financial input could improve its manufacturing sector and boost its economy.

在高校图书馆现有空间不具备专业展览配备的制约下，为了使展览惠及更多读者，图书馆只能选择在开放式空间内进行展出，而开放性对于展品的安全性存在较大隐患。尤其是较为珍贵的文物展、集邮展等文化展览的展品，其在展出期间需要配置专门的安保人员进行监管，需要投入的人力物力均比较大。

就连我们都有所听闻，拥有百余年历史的商务印书馆，自创立之日起便以“昌明教育，开启民智”为宗旨。沈剑毅认为，对于我们现在的人来说，印刷也是一种传播文化的手段，最终的目的是传播知识，这与前人的理念是一脉相承的。“无论印刷怎样变化，也不管印刷技术如何更新，这个宗旨始终如一，否则就不是我们的印刷行业了。我们要做的事情就是记载知识、传播知识、传承文化。”

Cooperation came in 2011 when then Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi came to China and met with some Chinese entrepreneurs,including Zhang. After the meeting,Zhang decided to relocate part of his production to Addis Ababa in October 2011 at an initial cost of $5 million. Three months later, the first pair of Guess shoes came out offthe assembly line. Since then, exports of the Ethiopian leather industry have increased by 57 percent. According to Zhang, as the first Chinese shoe manufacturer to invest in Africa,Huajian plans to turn Ethiopia into a global hub for the footwear industry over the next decade. He points out that their investment in Ethiopia is not just about reducing labor costs,but is an effort to set up a complete supply chain and become a key contributor toward the country’s economic growth.