{"id":15935,"date":"2026-05-08T22:10:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/ni-hao-new-hire-africas-growing-mandarin-job-boom\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T22:10:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:10:05","slug":"ni-hao-new-hire-africas-growing-mandarin-job-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/ni-hao-new-hire-africas-growing-mandarin-job-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Ni hao, new hire: Africa\u2019s growing Mandarin job boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/05\/05\/13870def-fad3-4d74-88a4-9fc30a9ee465_b62346cf.jpg?itok=El96_glg&amp;v=1777961888\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The change is partially being driven by the expanding footprint of smaller Chinese companies, which would rather hire locally than bring their own staff from China, and by the increasing role played by African firms in trade.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Few of the thousands of Chinese executives, managers and workers who pour into Africa every year are proficient in the languages of their host countries, according to recruiters and analysts.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This is true for the most widely spoken official languages like English or French, and is especially the case with indigenous African languages.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThere is now a greater need for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3352458\/ni-hao-new-hire-africas-growing-mandarin-job-boom?utm_source=rss_feed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The change is partially being driven by the expanding footprint of smaller Chinese companies,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1156,1221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tunisia","category-1221"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}