1, Shanghai Indian Association Chairman Amit Waikal think: Shanghai is very safe
Shanghai Indian Association Chairman Amit Waikal's hometown is Nagpur in central India. 2009, Waikal at that time in a German company sent him to Shanghai as senior vice president of sales in the Asia-Pacific region. Shanghai in 2009 as senior vice president of sales for the Asia-Pacific region. In 2012, Wyckaer was elected president of the Indian Association, an Indian community that merged with the Indian Women's Union of Shanghai and the Indian Businessmen's Union of Shanghai in 2006, and in the past three years he has been in charge of the Indian Association, which is now the largest in the world. In the three years he has been in charge, membership has grown from 700 to 1,500. The cell phone numbers and email addresses of all committee members can be found on the Indian Association's website, and the names and cell phone numbers of the association's members are published in an annual newsletter.
Waikal said the Indian Association often organizes public welfare activities to connect Indians in China, such as the annual Diwali public welfare party. In addition, they are also willing to do something for the people of Shanghai. Last November, hundreds of members of the Indian Association in Shanghai Blood Center to participate in blood donation. The association will hold another such event on June 14 this year, World Blood Donation Day. We're happy to do it," Waikal said. During the interview, Waikal repeatedly praised the Chinese for their punctuality and diligence, adding, "Whenever I meet a new Indian, I tell him that Shanghai gives us a greater sense of security than many other places in the world. We should give Shanghai a 'security award'."
Pradip Kumar and his wife, Ann Rita, live in a high-rise apartment in Shanghai's World Trade Center Riverside Garden, where, on a good day, their living room overlooks the Huangpu River. There are 70 to 80 Indian families living in this upscale neighborhood in total***. Kumar, who hails from New Delhi, the capital of India, and has experience as a multinational executive in Japan, Singapore, as well as Hong Kong and Shanghai in China, founded his own consulting firm in 2006, seeing opportunities in China's consulting industry, and is also a partner in another consulting firm. At that time, China's GDP was growing fast, and related policies made it very easy for multinationals to invest and operate in the country, with good prospects for business development, he told the Global Times.
Life in Shanghai has been a source of satisfaction for Kumar's family. Talking about the big Chinese ladies dancing in the square, Rita, who has become a grandmother, said, "Older Chinese people are more active and happier than their Indian counterparts, and retirement seems like the beginning of a new life for them." Since the family is vegetarian, Rita also taught the bellhop who came to the house to cook Indian food, which greatly enhanced their happiness living in Shanghai. Today, Rita is a member of a charity called Rice Moms, which works with disadvantaged children in Shanghai. There is a big difference between Indians and Westerners," Rita says. The Chinese see us as half foreigners because of our language, our looks and our Asian identity. I am happy that the locals have accepted us."
2, Beijing Taj House Indian restaurant general manager McHenry Pastakaya said: "India has to learn from China
Indians living in China are sometimes willing to compare the two countries. Mehno Pastakaya, general manager of Taj House Indian Restaurant in Beijing, has been in China for 24 years. He married his Chinese wife in 1997 and opened his first Indian restaurant in Beijing's China World Trade Center in 1998. Pashtakaya studied hotel management, after graduation in India to start a business, came up with an "industrial kitchen" idea, and do takeaway similar, but not too smooth. After a few years, he decided to venture out, and considered going to the Middle East, a region popular with Indians and home to more than 7 million Indians, until a friend asked him if he wanted to go to China with him. At that time, information was relatively closed, Pashtakaya knew nothing about China, but he still made the choice. Soon after he came to China, he met Ms. Zheng, an English-speaking woman, and in Pashtakaya's words, "There are really a lot of differences between the cultures of India and China, and it took us several years of serious relationships and bonding before we got married in 1997." Back then, he had to go to the Friendship Store to buy curry and other spices from his hometown, but now it's much more convenient, and online shopping takes care of it. Talking about the changes in Beijing, Pastakaya eloquently said, "At that time, the second and third ring roads that had just been repaired were congested again in a short time. It's not surprising that Beijing will have seven rings in the future." He also complains about the haze in Beijing, but feels that "pollution is related to development, which country is the same, India also has pollution", and Beijing has been much better in recent years, almost no sandstorms.
Pastakaya's Indian restaurant in Beijing was a hit, attracting many celebrities. Within a few years, he opened two more branches. With his business on the right track, Pashtakaya has become even more passionate about spreading Indian culture, he said: "Many Chinese people have the impression that yoga is all about weight loss and beauty, but in fact, it emphasizes more on breathing and meditation, and is used to cultivate the body and mind. I hope to do my part to let more Chinese people understand India."
Shanny, an only child from Hyderabad, the capital of the southern Indian city of Andhra Pradesh, has a beautiful Chinese name, "Moonlight," given to her by a Chinese girl who went to India. Yueguang loved the name, and when she came to China, she learned that "moonlight" had a new meaning, but this cheerful girl said with a smile, "It is impossible to become a 'moonlight family' in China, and that is why I came to China. ." Moonbeam said India has a large population and many people have siblings, so only children like her are rare.
Moonlight's father was a businessman in Britain and Hong Kong, China, and her first stop when she first came to China at age 13 was Hong Kong, followed by Guangzhou and Shenzhen. If you ask 100 Indians if they adapted when they first came to China, 99 of them would probably say no, because there are big cultural differences between India and China," said Moonbeam. But I adapted very well, I think it's because I've always been connected to China since I was a child." Now, her favorite Chinese snack remains shrimp dumplings from the Cantonese cuisine. A year and a half ago, Yueguang went to Beijing to study for an MBA at the University of International Business and Economics, and when she talked about why she gave up a prestigious U.S. university in favor of a Chinese one, Yueguang said it didn't make a lot of sense to study in the United States, given that India used to be a British colony, Hindi and English were official languages, and the knowledge she learned in business school in India was modeled after Europe and the United States. On the contrary, she believes that in 20 to 30 years China will definitely surpass the United States, so she wants to "stay in China after graduation and work there to witness the history. Moonlight said, India has a lot to learn from China, I noticed that China's shopping malls, tourist attractions and highway toll booths and other places of service are staffed by women, while these jobs in India are done by men.
Nitin Dhoni, from Bangalore, India, became interested in China during an internship in Shanghai during his graduate studies in Italy, and after graduating in 2011, Dhoni moved to Shanghai, where he now heads an environmental organization called Green Initiatives, and works part-time as an interior photographer and architectural consultant. "Green Initiative often organizes events to promote environmental protection, such as monthly lectures by experts and executives in the environmental industry, which are attended by hundreds of people each time. Dani is not interested in politics, but is more concerned about the Chinese government's environmental initiatives. In India, environmental issues have not been taken as seriously as in China," says Dhoni. The main challenges facing the Indian government are still infrastructure development such as power and water supply, and air pollution and food safety issues have only recently been taken seriously."
Dhani believes that the Chinese government's governance is excellent. As an example, he says, "Transportation in Bangalore is poor compared to Shanghai. a 10-kilometer journey takes me an hour or even more than an hour." But he feels that India has an advantage in tourism, where landscapes and customs remain intact, but in China, "everything is prettied up and becoming more and more westernized." For Dhoni, he hopes the visa process to come to China can be simplified.
3, Indian scholars: "India and China should not miss a good opportunity because of entanglement in the past"
China and globalization think tank executive secretary-general Dr. Miao Green said: 45,000 Indians living and working in China to China's reform and opening up plays a driving role, through the exchange of personnel can enhance understanding, promote China and India Through people-to-people exchanges, they can enhance understanding and promote the economic, trade and cultural development of China and India. But the number of Indians from the populous country is not large enough in China.
An Indian scholar who has lived in China for eight years but did not want to be named said: India and China's media sometimes have negative reports about each other's countries, such as speculation on the border, but in fact, ordinary people in India do not pay much attention to these reports. He believes that the media in Europe and the United States also often have negative reports on India, which is normal, the West is reluctant to accept the rise of other countries. Speaking of the 1962 war, he believes that India-China cooperation is the future development trend, and it would be a pity to miss the good opportunity because of dwelling on the past. He also spoke of "Prime Minister Modi's friendly visit to China and his hope that India and China will look forward." Previously, Indian leaders like to cover their ears to make their own decisions, but Modi is not, preferring to listen to the views of others, more open, affinity, and therefore win the hearts of many overseas Indians, there are many Indians for the vote Modi deliberately returned home.
Kumar said: "At the civil level, India and China can be said to trust each other. But at the government level, there is a bit too much caution with each other. I wanted to bring some Chinese companies to India earlier, but it took the Indian government a long time to complete the process. In China, it's easy to register American companies, and it was easy when I registered my company in China." He believes that with China's steady growth and India's rapid development, "the two countries should think in a new way to achieve *** together prosperity."
Indians in China experience differences between China and India, sighing that China has more opportunities and is safer - International - People's Daily Online
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