Chinese immigrants come to Spain for some simple reasons that would make anybody migrate. On one hand we could find a communist politic system that although is showing an opened-image, is oppressive and control the life of its citizens. The economic situation is not better, more tan 26m people live on the poverty line, so If they don’t have freedom and there’s poverty, what do they have? The immigration hope that obviously does not only go to Spain, the most preferred places are Taiwan, where there are more than 25m Chinese, Malaysia, Indonesia, USA, the UK and some European countries like ours.
They come to Spain with their life savings, starting their business, illegally in the majority of the cases, where they invest all their money without paying taxes and social security
The products they sell are bought in Chine, with a lower price, they have workdays that seems don’t have finish, and you will never see them enjoying their free time. Let me say that they come to work like Chinese, and collect money like they do with the rice in Chine, to go back to Chine an live like a Chinese emperor.
Every single company opened in Spain must have an administration hedge, licenses, being a juridical person, all the employers must have a social security hedge,etc, in the Chinese Shops don’t obey the law, so they don’t pay taxes, and if we take into account that their product cost are very low, they have a very important competitive advantage over the Spanish Shops. So, it’s very easy to understand why the Chinese come to Spain to entrepreneur.
The Spanish entrepreneurs try to defend from this competence saying that Spanish products have a better quality, but don’t the people who buy in Chinese shops know it? In my opinion Chinese shops are a very good option if you need something that doesn’t require a good quality or when the other shops are closed, cause they seem to be always open.
The Chinese competence is getting specialized, now we can find “zara” clother, with its logo having a much lower price and a very similar esthetic appearance.
