Integration and Community
Some local Kenyan merchants complain that Chinese expatriates selling imported goods are stealing jobs from them. They accuse Chinese traders of taking photographs of their goods in order to copy the designs, and claim they have unfair advantages such as cheap labour in China local government support. Chinese people have also opened apparel factories in Kenya's export processing zones, but there have been protests against poor working conditions there. Many Chinese businesspeople, especially those in the textiles industry, try to avoid directly dealing with locals as a result of this opprobrium, instead employing Kenyan human resources managers and accountants. The Kenyan government are taking a variety of steps to attempt to address the trade imbalance between the two countries, including encouraging Chinese traders to invest in local production facilities.
Chinese people are respected by locals for the infrastructure that Chinese companies have built in Kenya, such as the Thika Road. However, engineers working in remote parts of the country on such infrastructure projects stand out significantly from locals, and often face the danger of violence as a result.
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