Beijing (AFP) – A new draft law that could make it easier for foreigners to gain permanent residency in China has stirred up a torrent of xenophobia online.

The proposal, released by the justice ministry last week, has been gathering billions of views and a flood of angry posts on social media, targeting Africans in particular.

“China’s forty years of family planning policy does not make it a place for foreign trash to soar,” wrote one user on the Twitter-like platform Weibo, referring to the one-child birth limit China imposed between 1980 and 2016.

The person went on to use racist language against black people, saying: “Our common Chinese ancestry will not be tainted by Africans.”

Some Weibo-users posted videos of black people apparently committing crimes in China, while a campaign to encourage Chinese women to date Chinese men, under the hashtag “China girl”, had 240 million views as of Thursday afternoon.

Another widely-shared post on Weibo read: “China is not an immigrant country.”

A hashtag related to the law has gained more than 4.8 billion views.

The law — open to suggestions from the public until March 27 — proposes allowing foreigners’ dependants to apply simultaneously for permanent residency, as well as relaxing education and salary requirements.

State media said less than one percent of foreigners in China have permanent residency.

The draft bill comes at a time when China is seeking to expand its global influence and attract foreign exchange and investment.

Its massive Belt and Road infrastructure investment project has funded thousands of lucrative scholarships for students from developing countries.

But there have been points of tension, including a crackdown on illegal immigrants in commercial hub Guangzhou’s “Little Africa” which left many complaining of hard treatment from authorities.

There are also long-standing anxieties about perceived preferential treatment for foreigners in China, especially international students.

“For a long time, some foreigners in China have secretly received ‘superior treatment’ as citizens,” wrote Hu Xijin, editor of the nationalistic Global Times.

Last July, Shandong University apologised after a backlash over a policy that introduced foreign students to local students of the opposite sex.

Heather Li, a China-Africa business consultant, said she was “really shocked” by the extent of the online racism.

She used to tell her African friends that many Chinese people were friendly and curious about their culture, despite their occasional encounters with prejudice.

“But after seeing it on Weibo, I realised there was so much more to it, because people were using very strong language and really disrespecting people from other races,” she said.

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Why are they doing this now? Because the chinese are pouring into africa in streams and overtaking markets.
It is their plan to also ask for the same favour in return where they can buy up huge tracts of african land from 100 to 1000 years.
They have learnt from the West. Their 'Win-Win' is really Win for them, Lose for you. Colonialism is simply business NO favours.
Mark my word. In a couple of decades, the chinese will this overtake this continent. I have seen them already...

Ok

some of the most RACIST people on earth are Chinese... dont joke with it. they can smile at you,move to every country to create their own Chinatown and/or invest in Africa and rob them blind in the same process...but when it comes to matter of having more "demons of the west" moving and living legally in China, that is a huge problem for them. they dont like foreigners PERIOD, and the darker the foreigners, the more they dislike them.

some people there still see us as the DEMONS OF THE WEST

Some Weibo-users posted videos of black people apparently committing crimes in China, while a campaign to encourage Chinese women to date Chinese men, under the hashtag “China girl”, had 240 million views as of Thursday afternoon.

This is not new. In the late 1980s or early 1990s when Moussa Traore then presiddent of Mali was the president of the African Union, there was a lot of drama over Chinese male students being jealous and very upset about Chinese girls dating African male students in China.
A lot of fights happen on campuses in China . Moussa Traore went there as the president of the African Union to address the issue.
This been said , Chinese have been committing crimes in Angola a lot, for years. Heard the government of Angola even allowed Chinese police to step in for help.

This is what you get when you fail to add value to yourself

I agree with the Chinese.
Your country faced and is facing overpopulation. There's even a government imposed family planning. What sense does it make to open the gates for a flood of people who you know are going to be bringing more vice than virtue into your country?

But this same Chinese are traveling and living in different part of the world in large numbers

Any nation that is not a Black nation is racist against Africans , period.
We Africans are the only ones who don't care about skin color when we deal with a stranger.

i like this woman....
she is doing a good job....

when we start threatin them like shitt too,then they start cryin like bitches....
abegi....

black people realy need to wake up....
you have no friends in this world....

crownedrookie:
I agree with the Chinese.
Your country faced and is facing overpopulation. There's even a government imposed family planning. What sense does it make to open the gates for a flood of people who you know are going to be bringing more vice than virtue into your country?

na people like you dey motivate them to threat other blacks like this....

dont even think on runnin back to white people because of this video....

stand on your own....!!

justtoodark:


na people like you dey motivate them to threat other blacks like this....

Truth hurts

panafrican:
Any nation that is not a Black nation is racist against Africans , period.
We Africans are the only ones who don't care about skin color when we deal with a stranger.

That's because you all are Sheep. You treat each other like crap and kiss foreigners asses. Just like when you sold off millions of your own people as slaves to them. You guys are cursed I think, do to what your ancestors did.