Introduction to Foreigner Street

Foshan Foreigner Street started construction on May 15, 2012 and is expected to be completed in three years. Foreigner Street is an industrial street built for Foshan Sino-German Industrial Service Zone and European Industrial Park. After completion, there will be 450 offices, 40 restaurants, and 10 bars, including offices, leisure and entertainment, cultural catering, experiential shopping, Apartments and other formats. The Foreigner Street constructed this time is a service venue supported by the government and fully privately invested. The service items in the venue are composed of government approval business and market-oriented services. The government approval service is led by the competent government departments and works with relevant departments to create a one-stop one-stop service in Foreigner Street to provide efficient and convenient services for foreigners and foreign companies to live or start a business in Foshan. Market-oriented services will be directly provided by foreigners. people. The organizer stated that the goal of Foreigner Street is to build a "Chinatown" for foreigners in China and become an experience center for Western culture, so that foreigners and senior white-collar workers in their 70s and 80s can gather in the park, and provide a platform for Westerners who like Chinese culture. Provide a place for communication with Chinese people who like Western culture.

The development of Foreigner Street is the inevitable result of internationalization.

In the past 100 years or so, because China is leading the world and there are many opportunities abroad, many Chinese people have gone abroad to seek opportunities. Therefore, many Chinatowns abroad were originally composed of Chinese workers who had difficulty integrating into mainstream society. It was passively formed without planning to solve the problem of survival; but now, China's economy has developed, creating huge development opportunities, and people from all over the world have come to China to seek opportunities. Today's Foreigner Street is composed of high-quality personnel. It is planned and proactively formed to solve development problems. The core of taking the initiative to build Foshan Foreigner Street is "recruiting talents and attracting wisdom."

First of all, Foshan Foreigner Street is a cultural street. It is an experience street for Western culture in China, and it is also another hometown for Westerners in China. Foreigners can experience Chinese culture, but it is neither possible nor necessary for them to change their own cultural genes. The purpose of creating Foreigner Street is to allow them to still enjoy their original culture in China, but at the same time share in China's development. The main purpose of Foshan Foreigner Street is to serve foreign talents. It is created for "Westerners who like Chinese culture and Chinese people who like Western culture" to "let China taste the taste of the world and let the world share China's development." If there is no place here that matches the culture of their same ancestors, they will feel uncomfortable, and they will feel like they are in a foreign land. The reason is due to cultural differences, not other differences. Therefore, in order for foreigners in Foshan to work and live here and find a sense of belonging, Foreigner Street must play the same role of "relieving homesickness" as Chinatowns abroad.

Secondly, Foshan Foreigner Street is also an industrial street, a commercial street and a tourist street. Foshan Creative Industrial Park is the carrier of the modern service industry. In fact, what Western countries really lead in China is the service industry. Through the platform of Foreigner Street, we can introduce advanced Western service industries to form an industry agglomeration in the service industry. Foreigner Street actually It is also an entrepreneurial street that welcomes foreigners to come to China to find opportunities to start businesses. According to statistics, the number of inbound tourists in 2011 was more than 52 million, and internationalization is irreversible. As a second-tier city, Foshan is definitely one step ahead by taking the initiative to build Foreigner Street. At present, there are several places in China where foreigner streets are relatively well developed: first, Dali, which is not an industrial street, but a cultural tourism street; second, Yiwu, which is mainly populated by Arabs, and Yiwu is mainly located in some underdeveloped areas. The third is Yangshuo West Street, which is a tourist street, while Foshan Foreigner Street is an industrial street built for the Sino-German Industrial Service Zone and the European Industrial Park.