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Africans in Guangzhou are emigrants from Africa residing in Guangzhou, China for short and long term periods. Since China's late 1990s economic boom, thousands of African traders and business people, predominantly from West Africa, migrated to the city of Guangzhou, creating an African community in the middle of the southern Chinese metropolis. This influx of Africans to Guangzhou—a new phenomenon in China—has been met with mixed reactions from the local populace and has resulted in open discussion on racism, xenophobia, and immigration—a novelty in modern China. ==Population== In the 2000s, the city's African population rapidly increased with a 2008 news report stating the number of African residents had increased by 30% to 40% annually, making Guangzhou the largest African community in Asia. Since then the African population has declined. A 2014 article in the magazine ''This Is Africa'' noted the decrease in population, citing lower demand for Chinese imports in Africa and increased immigration enforcement by local police as reasons. Prompted by popular fears of an Ebola outbreak in 2014, Guangzhou authorities in October released official data on the size of the African community. According to the city, there are 16,000 Africans including North Africans residing in Guangzhou. Of these residents, 4,000 were long term residents, which is defined by city officials as living for longer than 6 months in the city. Among African nationalities, the two countries with by far the most people in Guangzhou are the West African nations of Nigeria and Mali. Nigerian Igbo people〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=PM News Nigeria )〕 are most represented among those residing while Malians according to city records are most numerous among long term residents. Migrants from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, and Senegal are the remaining African communities in Guangzhou with at least a few hundred registered members at country-based civic organizations. In addition 430,000 arrivals and exits by nationals from African countries were recorded at the city's checkpoints in the first nine months of 2014. Most of these hundreds of thousands of arrivals are short term visitors making a purchasing run. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Africans in Guangzhou」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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