Is it difficult to immigrate to Finland in recent years?

There are not many people from China in Finland, but there are many Chinese restaurants. In the past two years, China restaurants in Finland have mushroomed, and every street in Helsinki, the capital, has China restaurants with lanterns. Most of the earliest immigrants from China in Finland came from Hongkong, Malaysia and Viet Nam, while the immigrants from Chinese mainland only gradually increased in recent years. There is a Chinese restaurant called Donghai in Continental City. The owner is Zhao Feng, from Harbin Institute of Technology in China. She is a doctoral student at Oulu University, but before finishing her book, she had already opened a Chinese restaurant. This is a typical entrepreneurial story of new immigrants in Chinese mainland. The hotel is elegantly decorated, with Chinese mahogany tables and chairs, soft lighting and Teresa Teng's sweet singing voice, which is deeply China-like. The business of the small restaurant is booming, and most of the guests are Finns.

The proportion of China people in Finland is still very small. According to Hong Yongqing, who is in charge of science and technology affairs in China Consulate, there are about 3,000 people in China, including 1500 foreign students.

In recent years, most people who come to Finland are talents from Chinese mainland. It takes only eight hours to fly directly from Beijing to Finland. Therefore, northerners go to Finland more often, but 80% of them study abroad first and then stay and work. Technical professionals have obtained shares or stock options in some small technology companies, which is the most attractive place for China talents. Although domestic talents are the technical backbone of the company, it is still quite difficult to be promoted to management. Language is one of the reasons. The cold climate and boring living environment in Finland make it difficult for people to plan to stay for a long time. For most technical talents, if they have the opportunity to go to the United States, China, Hongkong or go back to Chinese mainland for development, Finland will always be just a short stop in their life journey.