A new round of wealth migration fever quietly rising investment migration

A new round of immigration fever has crept up. Reporter Shang Photographer Chungkin Deng Huaning promised that with the accumulation of Chinese folk wealth and frequent foreign exchanges, a new immigrant, characterized by investment and business development, is surging.　　Unlike the recent influx of immigrants from the past, this new immigrant hot immigrant has a certain economic base, and immigrants are no longer forced to make a living, but to better develop and integrate into the world.　　Two force to help push the number of investment migrants has soared since 2003, the domestic energy, real estate, the stock market has expanded a group of private enterprises, the rapid accumulation of private wealth has greatly reduced the Chinese people to apply for investment immigration threshold. From 2000 to 2004, as countries tightened their immigration policies and spread the global SARS epidemic, the scale of China's overseas migrants experienced a low ebb.　　Since 2006, however, a wave of Chinese demand has boosted investment and business-class migration in almost all major immigrant countries, a trend that has been fuelled by the financial crisis. According to the Department of Homeland Security statistics, from 2007 to 2009, although the total number of mainland Chinese immigrants to the United States (permanent residency) has not changed significantly, the number of investment-type immigrants can be described as soaring.　　2009, the United States approved the mainland of China's investment immigration 1971, accounting for the total number of 53%, this figure than the 2008 U.S. total investment Immigration approval volume (1360) also higher than 45%. Since 2005, the deputy general manager of Shanghai CIIC International Business Development Co., Ltd. the company's volume of business in the past few years has risen sharply, and last year it became clear that the U.S. approval cycle has been extended "in the past, as long as 18 days, now to wait 2 months, the Chinese side of the application of more people." "The data in the United States is not an isolated phenomenon. "Economic reference newspaper" from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other immigration agencies learned that in 2008, Canada approved investment immigrants more than 10,000, a 60% increase in 2004, of which 70% from the mainland China. In recent years, Australian business immigrants have a quota of 3500 people a year, and the number of applications from China can reach about 2000 people.　　In October 2003, the Hong Kong Investors ' entry scheme was less than 500 in the first year, reaching 1800 in 2007 and 3391 in 2009, of which 76% were from mainland China. There are two forces behind such active overseas investment. Beijing's private entry and exit Intermediary Industry Association president Shilini said that since 2003, the domestic energy, real estate, stock market areas to expand a group of private enterprises, the rapid accumulation of private wealth has greatly reduced the Chinese application for investment immigration threshold "investment immigrants at a time of millions of yuan input in the past is difficult to reach, And now the domestic first-line city, a set of 100 square meters of housing is more than 3 million yuan. "Another reason is that the financial crisis has greatly exacerbated the openness of countries to investment migrants." 2008The U.S. government has launched a green card to attract foreign direct participation in U.S. domestic investment projects in response to bank shortfalls. There are nearly hundreds of U.S. investment immigrants currently active only in Beijing.　　Greg, the managing director of an investment immigration project in New York City, said the project's launch attracted 70 Chinese investors ($ 500,000 per person) in less than three months, and that their focus has shifted to China and will continue to grow in Chinese hands in the future. The more people who emigrate for a living, the poorer they are, the more they make money and send it back to their families.　　Now, with the improvement of life, the key areas, people, goals and ways of migration have changed dramatically. Guangzhou Add Cheng Immigrant Investment Consulting Co., Ltd. Chairman He Minghui said that most of the old immigrants in Guangdong are from the Kaiping, Taishan and other mountain farmers, the new immigrants are now concentrated in the Pearl River Delta cities, with higher education.　　Old immigrants leave China for a long time, 35 years are not back, because the ticket is difficult to earn, and now the new immigrants back more and more frequent, and some one weeks back, because both sides have business and care. Since the reform and opening up Wenzhou has produced 400,000 new overseas Chinese, distributed in Europe and America and Australia, mainly engaged in catering and trade. They choose to obtain permanent residence abroad, on the one hand, for the convenience of business, freedom to come and go, on the other hand education for their children. Zhou, president of Wenzhou SME Promotion Association, said that the children can enjoy free education and medical treatment and other social benefits, and the threshold and professional choice are better than studying abroad.　　For a boss with thousands, if two or three children, spending 3 million yuan to solve the problem of children to go to school, how much more than in Beijing, Shanghai compete for scarce education resources more cost-effective. Guan Jinghong, chairman of Guangzhou Jing Hong Immigration consulting company for 20 years, said a growing number of entrepreneurs in mainland China are beginning to recognise the fact that 80% of the current Chinese private companies listed in Hong Kong and the United States have permanent residency in third countries, which has proven to be more convenient for companies to list and "go out". In addition, having a third country permanent residency will also help the mainland's new rich to retain more personal wealth. "For example, Chinese citizens have the right of abode in Hong Kong to invest in the mainland, and under the C EPA rules, they can pay 15% less personal income tax." "American Street, Hong Kong Road, less than the Wenzhou small selling shop" I go abroad to fight together the Chinese people are the last to pull foreign customers to domestic, abroad to make money, back to old age, so they do not give up the domestic network, often run both places. "2003, in Guangdong Foshan operating lighter factory 10 years of Li Zhenio, through the help of a friend of the Dutch immigrants."　　At that time, in order to open up the European market, easy to go abroad to do business, Li Zhenio around the business of friends and relatives have done a similar "green card". Since then, however, Li Zhenio has not been a country, because China's domestic economic development situation is far more thanEuropean lighters market. "2005, we successfully seized the domestic real estate market opportunities, now my company has a hotel in Suzhou also participated in a number of residential projects development." And I had a group of immigrants, ready to Europe to develop lighter market friends are mostly turned to the domestic real estate, energy, these areas, those who go overseas is regret. "Zhe's new story is not a case in the current immigrant group," he said. In their view, "China is the real home, if there is a chance to develop there is no reason to go abroad." Even if you go abroad to develop well, finally want to go home. "In 2002, Wenzhou Girl Zhou, who was in his early 20, opened a clothing trading company with her newly married husband, Germany. "When my husband joined Austrian citizenship, I was able to work and start a company in any European Union."　　Zhou told reporters. From the street stalls of foreign trade bargains, Zhou business more and more, now has broken into Germany's regular supermarket chains and department stores, a year's sales reached millions of U.S. dollars "Germany's apparel market circle is very strong, shopping malls are generally looking for fixed middlemen to purchase, the Chinese people are very difficult to enter, can only rely on product innovation to compete."　　"Zhou said. After several years of hard work, Zhou's company is on the right track, there is a dedicated team in the business, but also hired a German salesman specializing in dealing with middlemen. 2007 to obtain the permanent right of abode in Germany Zhou of foreign life summary is to be able to worry a lot of "no money in China is not good, but in foreign countries are different, the poor rich people's life can not see much difference." Germany's higher taxes on the rich, better social welfare, the General people are sick are protected, foreign hospitals are relatively few. The overall feeling of German life is very comfortable, not so much the way of the world. "Despite having a stable business and a successful career in the eyes of ordinary people, Zhou does not want to be rooted in German land," he said.　　Now she has half the time in China in a year, and says the focus is still in China. "Germans are more conservative, unlike Italians and Spaniards who love to spend their clothes. The financial crisis came when the Germans first squeezed the budget, and the retail store's popularity fell. In recent years, Bangladesh, Turkey, more and more textiles, no stronger competitiveness, we will also be eliminated.　　"Zhou said. Zhou that "stronger competitiveness" comes from China.　　She is planning to optimize the company's trade process, from Germany directly to her branch in Shanghai, the German customers directly to the domestic to do, both to reduce costs, but also to use domestic resources. Zhou admits that the small businesses they run in China are unlikely to be able to stand alone in Germany's business circles in the short term, or to integrate into German communities. "My husband and I went to a local family reunion at the beginning, and it was always weird," he said. But two of people open the company outside, must have a nationality, otherwise foreigners still do not believe you. It's just a permanent residence permit. There are some restrictions on the company in Germany. "But Zhou never considered joining German."Foreigner, it is inconvenient to return to China. And my children must be educated in China, I am a foreign Chinese friend's children go home one day to tell his mother: ' I will not go back to China, the teacher said I am Austrian '. This kind of brainwashing abroad makes me very disgusted. Zhou, who has been playing abroad for many years, thinks that foreign society has a better place than China, but many of the inner things Chinese still have difficulty communicating with them. "Just like we wenzhou people have a saying: American Street, Hong Kong Road, not as small as Wenzhou sales shop." "Immigration Intermediary Services: Industry impetuous mixed profit huge industry impetuous" economic reference newspaper reporter interviewed to understand that the general one of the service costs of visiting migrants also on the thousands of yuan, while the cost of investment in migrant services is often tens of thousands of yuan, and many applicants are not sensitive to the price of services,　　Huge profit space breeds a large number of industry impetuous, leading to investment in migrant intermediary services market. Reporters in the Beijing market unannounced, learned that all kinds of investment in the banner of the description of immigrants will be overwhelming, dazzling.　　From overseas employment to the purchase of foreign passports, intermediary sales of any commitment to do, and even can save the immigration supervisor (foreigners must live in a country for more than a few years to obtain a green card, the term of residence called the immigration Warden), as long as you can pay. Some of the industry's interviewees have shown that the large number of "500,000-dollar immigrant-American" businesses that have appeared in the market since last year contain greater risks. In response to the 2008 financial crisis in the capital shortage, the United States Government has substantially increased the number of "regional centres" (I5) in investment immigration (category E B 5), with applicants opting for a "Regional Center" project approved by the United States Immigration Service, which will be eligible for a conditional green card after spending 500,000 dollars You can apply for a formal green card after two years.　　The application of the "Regional Center" has been relaxed and has quickly boosted China's market boom. In fact, however, the current barrage of advertising masks the potential risks of the "Regional Center". First, 500,000 dollars will be taken to the "Regional Center" condominium account before applying for U.S. immigration, and the U.S. government is not responsible for regulation, and countries such as Canada have been allowed to enter the government's designated fund account after the immigration application has been approved.　　Second, the success of the 500,000-dollar migration will have to look at the operation of the project two years later, and the "Regional Center" project was set up to stimulate the economy in the underdeveloped regions of the United States, and the project's prospects are often complex and changeable. Industry insiders pointed out that the United States Government has made it clear that applicants should bear the "Regional Center" project market risk, but because of the domestic migration intermediary industry as a whole impetuous, many organizations not only to help customers recognize the corresponding risks, but with a fluke mentality to encourage customers to apply, can mix the past is one.　　Even with the lack of regulatory loopholes in the "Regional Centre" project and the falsification of 500,000 of dollars in investment records, the U.S. Immigration Department has recently refused to sign several such applications. Unlike other services, the immigration intermediary business is mainly based on foreignLaws, market regulation is more likely to lag. Beijing's private entry and exit Intermediary Industry Association president Shilini said that the investment in the immigration market in recent years has just begun to heat up, on the one hand, customers are more blind, on the other hand, many real estate, coal industry-driven hot money influx, temporary pull up an operating team, neither business accumulation nor market base　　These have exacerbated the industry's fickleness. The professional quality of the intermediary companies in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou has been reflected, since the promulgation of the "Measures for the administration of private entry and exit intermediary activities" In 2001, the System Foundation for the development of the immigrant intermediary service industry has been laid, but not perfect.　　The immigration business is not a pure market economy service product, not only the service content involves the foreign legal system, numerous and complicated, but also involves the national diplomacy, directly affects the applicant individual and the entire family life plan, therefore to the personnel's quality request is very high, must have the professionalization standardized management, cannot completely by the market free competition mechanism dominate. A staff member at the Beijing Pacific Immigration Service told the economic reference News reporter at present, immigration services in the market are uneven, the mobility of immigration advisers is a common phenomenon, and some advisers even only six months to change jobs, on the one hand, because of the rapid development of industry opportunities, on the other hand, and the operating culture of different companies. "Many immigration advisers are quick to profit, the commitment is more, because the company rules with the process of immigration to take a commission, so the consultant more value signing rate, once the signing will be able to get part of the Commission, as to whether the following can be done, not to consider so much." Even some intermediary company bosses want immigration advisers to leave early, so that the money they pay will not be paid.　　"Shilini said that at present, the state-related laws only restrict the immigration intermediary companies, the practitioners do not have a post access, supervision and punishment of the management system, immigration project processing cycle is long, once found that the problem of the parties have to move away, the company has no constraints." Many people in the industry believe that the immigration agents are mainly relying on the professional quality of immigration consultants to serve customers, the consultant's freedom of service is very large, similar to accountants and lawyers, can refer to the establishment of a national certification system.　　In fact, Canada, the United States and other major immigrant countries in the immigration agency system, are strict requirements for immigration lawyers to pass the examination to hold a certificate, the domestic immigration agents are the relevant materials through these immigration lawyers to the immigration Department. Wang Hong, who engages in immigration services in Shanghai, said that she had been involved in the work of the Labor and Security Department's standard for the study of immigrant consultants in 2007, but judged that there were not enough practitioners in the industry, and the standard was not implemented.　　At present, the industry organizations in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou are actively promoting the regional immigration consultant training and management system, laying the foundation for the establishment of national system. Industry supervision is urgently needed to strengthen the current Beijing through the legal registration of immigration intermediary agencies 77, Shanghai 41, Guangdong has 117. According to industry estimates, the current three illegal operation of the number of intermediary companies have beenBy far more than legally registered companies.　　The rapid development of the industry, the continuous expansion of the number of enterprises, to market access, supervision and norms have put forward new requirements.　　He Beii, chairman of Guangdong Chinese Overseas Affairs Co., Ltd., established in 1990, said that the state regulations clearly stipulate that illegal operators of immigration agencies should confiscate the proceeds and be heavily punished, but in recent years many undocumented immigrant intermediaries operating through the Internet have become increasingly active, disrupting market order. Rey Cley, vice president of American Life, who specializes in American investment in immigration services, says Chinese residents have strong investment immigration needs, but because Chinese officials lack the appropriate market access system, it is difficult for Chinese citizens to distinguish between trustworthy U.S. investment projects.　　The Taiwanese authorities are demanding that all U.S. investment and immigration operations in the local market be registered with the Ministry of the Interior, and the Taiwanese authorities will be responsible for approving the appropriate qualifications and integrity. "Economic reference newspaper," the reporter learned that the current hot investment migration market attracts many financial institutions to use their own customer resources to infiltrate immigration intermediary services.　　For example, some domestic banks in the official website launched the "200 yuan proxy clients to submit visas" business, and some offshore fund companies disregard the prohibition of Chinese law, directly in China to provide immigration intermediary services. Some industry insiders told reporters that domestic and foreign financial institutions are not independent in China to engage in entry and exit service qualifications, not only infringe on the interests of the migrant intermediary industry, but also will damage the interests of consumers, due to regulatory loopholes, once the accident, the penalties for these institutions will not be able to.　　Many overseas financial institutions have put forward the suggestion that the Chinese government should strengthen the industry regulation. Interviewed industry insiders believe that investment immigration is an emerging channel for citizens to enter and exit, the Government is difficult to implement step supervision, can set up a national trade association, bear a large number of professional and cumbersome industry management affairs, including enterprise qualification pre-audit, personnel training, market research and industry self-discipline, The limited resources of the Government are relegated to the background, focusing mainly on administration, punishment and decision-making.