[European Times Tuberni] In recent years, Chinese millionaires have traveled thousands of miles to invest and start businesses around the world. Spain, which has close cooperation with China, has also become increasingly favored by Chinese investors. The fourth Spanish TV station "Fuera de Cobertura" filmed the documentary "Welcome to Mr. Zheng", which tells the story of Chinese people investing in Spain.
"Welcome to Mr. Zheng" documentary. (Photo source: Screenshot of the official website of Spanish TV Channel 4)
According to Spanish TV Channel 4, the "Fuera de Cobertura" program filmed the documentary "Welcome Mr. Zheng". Host Alejandra Andrade interviewed several Chinese rich people and asked them to tell the story of investing in Spain. The documentary was broadcast at 22:45 on the 17th.
reported that in recent years, Chinese millionaires have traveled thousands of miles to invest and start businesses around the world and established close cooperative relations with China, Spain has become increasingly favored by Chinese investors. It is reported that they have acquired companies, wineries, football clubs, and houses and buildings in Spain, but these "mysterious rich people" have never wanted to show their true colors. Spanish TV Channel 4 filmed the documentary to introduce Chinese investors to Spanish society and bring these most influential people in China to the Spanish screen.
In the documentary, host Andrade interviewed a Chinese investor who was inspecting Spain for several days. The rich man named Li visited Madrid , Malaga , Cadis and other places, looking for land, hotels and wineries worth investing, and plans to invest millions of euros in Spain.
The host accompanied Mr. Li and his party to take the bus to Malaga to meet with the sellers they negotiated with. To Andrade's surprise, they negotiated directly with these Spanish sellers without getting off the car. "It's a bit surreal to me and it's very different," Andrade exclaimed. "Mr. Li is really rich. He doesn't know how much assets he has."
Mr. Li's accompanying person told Andrade, "We investigate in this way because his time is precious." Mr. Li hopes to build a resort for Chinese tourists who come to the Spanish coast for vacation, and they are willing to do everything possible to promote the development of the project. After the two-day trip, Mr. Li said, "I only stayed in Spain for two days, but Spain left a deep impression on me. One thing I want to say is that Spanish companies should be more open to the world."
Spain's wine industry has a strong attraction to Chinese investors. It is reported that the program team visited a winery located in Aranda de Duero, the first winery in Spain that is completely run by Chinese. The owner is Julián, a 23-year-old young man. His father Ping came to Spain 30 years ago and bought a winery.
It is reported that 70% to 80% of the wines of this winery will be shipped to China, and the rest will be sold to Spain and other parts of Europe. Its shadow can be found in Michelin restaurants or British palaces. Julián said he believes that the quality of Spanish red wine is the best in the world, and Chinese people are increasingly liking Spanish red wine.
Julián showed the winery to reporters. (Photo source: Video screenshot of Spanish TV Channel 4)
Fuera de Cobertura program team also came to Madrid IE Business School, where the graduate tuition fee for the college is at least 50,000 euros. Today, about 70 Chinese students are studying at IE Business School, and Andrade has interviewed three of them. They all live in the Salamanca district, have no jobs and need family members to provide living expenses. The students told her that they would study for at least 10 hours a day from Monday to Sunday.
Similarly, in Madrid, Andrade also accompanied Margaret Chen, honorary president of the China Association (Spain), to participate in the board tennis match she organized to listen to her talk about her life in Spain. Chen studied computer engineering at a top university in the United States, but ended up staying in Spain for love. As a consultant to several Chinese and Spanish companies, Chen told reporters that she had to "work 18 hours" every day.
She said, "Spain is an important window for entering the European and Latin American markets. Spain has a lot of rich resources, but the Chinese did not know about it before." She also told reporters that Spanish people have many stereotypes about Chinese people, such as thinking that Chinese people do not pay taxes, Chinese people are their own, and Chinese restaurants eat dog meat... But in fact, there is a side that Spanish people cannot see, and many Chinese people who contribute to society have all kinds of people. In fact, deep down, Chinese and Spanish are very similar.
Finally, the program team came to the luxury street of Barcelona and saw the strong purchasing power of Chinese tourists. According to reports, the main tourist destination for Chinese tourists in Spain is Barcelona, and they spend an average of 1,000 euros per store. In 2018, Chinese tourists spent as much as 800 million euros in tourism in Spain.
program points out that the Spanish saying "work like a Chinese" is not groundless, which is why the Chinese community has achieved great success in Spain and the whole world.
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