Africans in Guangzhou
Africans in Guangzhou (simplified Chinese: 广州非裔; traditional Chinese: 廣州非裔, more colloquially 广州黑人; 廣州黑人; 'Black people in Guangzhou') are African immigrants and African Chinese residents of Guangzhou, China.
| Total population | |
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| 13,652 (2019) ≤4553 (2020) | |
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| English, French, Igbo, Bambara and other African languages | |
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| Africans in Guangzhou | |||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 广州非裔 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 廣州非裔 | ||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Guangzhou residents of African descent | ||||||||||
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| Alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 广州黑人 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 廣州黑人 | ||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Black people in Guangzhou | ||||||||||
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Beginning during the late 1990s economic boom, an influx of thousands of African traders and business people, predominantly from West Africa, arrived in Guangzhou and created an African community in the middle of the southern Chinese metropolis. In 2012, it was estimated that there were more than 100,000 Africans living in Guangzhou, but most of them stayed for a very short time. Since 2014, the city's African population has significantly declined due to strict immigration enforcement by Chinese authorities and economic pressures in home countries including depreciation of the Nigerian naira and Angolan kwanza.