Chinese businessmen talk about 100 days in Sri Lanka's crisis

Editor's words: On the 20th, Sri Lankans voted for the new president. Whether this can become a crisis turning point has attracted much attention. From April 9th ​​to July 17th, the Sri Lanka crisis has lasted 100 days. The Chinese businessman who experienced the crisis witnessed the country's initial degradation of the country. No fuel, nothing to do. How much harm to the Sri Lankan economic crisis to local Chinese businessmen and other groups? How to transmit turbulence to trade between China and Sri Lanka? The Global Times reporter conducted an investigation and interview for this.

Reporter Wang, a reporter from Carter in Sri Lankan, together with the reporter Yang Shasha ● Xin Bin

"The most worried now is the security issue"

According to the BBC, on the 20th local time, the Sri Lanka Parliament announced that during the Presidential election voting on the day, the interim President Vicraminha was elected President Si.

Faced with the new government that is about to be born, Ms. Zhang, who operates Chinese restaurants in the 7th district of Costapot, is an interview with the Global Times reporter in an interview with the Sino -Srocket Trading Business. "The people around me have no money. The local income is greatly reduced, and some can not afford three meals a day. The box lunch of 100 rupees (about 1.88 yuan) is now hundreds or even thousands of rupees. "

The Global Times reporter saw on the official website of the Sri Lanka Embassy that since the beginning of April, the Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka has issued 7 notices in Sri Lanka to strengthen security prevention in Sri Lanka. On July 19, the embassy again issued a notice saying that, in view of the current and future situation of Sri Lanka, in order to further grasp the situation of Chinese citizens, the embassy has once again counted in Sriors' citizen information.

Despite the increasingly tense situation, Ms. Zhang does not plan to leave Sri Lanka. She told reporters that she came to Sri Lanka at the end of 2012 and was almost 10 years. At first, it was operating Chinese restaurants. With more and more Chinese people in Laisi, they later engaged in the tourism and trade industry.

The World Economic Forum website reviewed on July 19 that in early April of this year, the Sri Lankan capital Coronapa broke out to ask President Rajapaksa to resign on a large -scale protest. The rise in grain prices caused by the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the rise in global fuel prices have also exacerbated Sri Lanka's severe situation. On July 6, Sri Lanka announced bankruptcy, the most serious economic crisis since the country's independence in 1948. The BBC reports that in June, the overall inflation rate of Sri Lanka reached 55%.

Ms. Zhang recalled that the 100 days of the turbulence of Sri Lanka was only an economic crisis at first. Sri Lanka's currency depreciated sharply, which affected only business. However, the subsequent economic crisis evolved into a political crisis, and the situation was turbulent. Now the public security is not as good as before.

"Now the most worried about safety issues. Every day when I go home from get off work, I am afraid of being robbed." Ms. Zhang told reporters, "Just a week ago, a safe in my restaurant was stolen and the loss was great. The big case continued. When the Sri Lanka police dealt with the police, a major case happened in the neighbor's house and was stolen by 50 million rupees. "

Chinese e -commerce platform: the order has not changed, the logistics has an impact

According to Agence France -Presse reports on the 19th, due to the foreign exchange reserves that were not used for imports, Sri Lanka still owed $ 51 billion in foreign debt, fuel, medicine and other necessities.

A Chinese businessman who invested in a factory in Sri Lanka told the Global Times reporter that due to the import control of Sri Lanka, the product packaging no longer allows imports, and the factory can only be reluctant to stop working. Hundreds of Sri Lanka employees he hire can only be at home.

The lives of local businessmen are not good. Sri Lanka merchant, Aesley, who is engaged in import trade, told the Global Times reporter that at the beginning of the economic crisis, although the trade business was difficult to do, it could barely maintain it. Later, with the deepening of the foreign exchange crisis, the Sri Lanka began to control, and his import trade business basically stopped. "My company mainly imports goods from China to Sri Lanka, but now there are no foreign exchange banks, I can't pay the payment." Asli said, "I hope that the new government can alleviate the economic crisis as soon as possible, improve foreign exchange reserves, and allow business to continue to do it. "Go down".

而在中国方面，阿里巴巴旗下的跨境电商平台速卖通20日回复《环球时报》记者称，速卖通直接面向海外消费者，中国商家可以通过速卖通平台把中国商品直接卖给Overseas consumers. Sri Lanka can also use AliExpress. Recently, orders from Sri Lanka consumers have not changed significantly.

SpeedSmocks said that Sri Lanka consumers mainly purchased some daily necessities, 3C electronic products, etc. on the platform. Despite the current situation, local consumers still need more demand for daily necessities from China. However, due to the tight fuel supply of Sri Lanka, local logistics has been greatly affected, and the time limit for delivery cannot be guaranteed.

In order to protect the rights and interests of domestic cross -border merchants, AliExpress, according to the local logistics capabilities, appropriately extended the "limited time" commitment timeliness, and introduced the exemption of cross -border logistics delivery to avoid losses caused by local logistics issues in Sri Lanka.

Relevant person in charge of Jiangsu Suzhou Sugabao Import and Export Co., Ltd. told the Global Times reporter on the 20th that the company has imported Sri Lanka tea through platforms such as JD. From April to the present, Sri Lanka's supply is relatively stable. At present 500, but when the company recently placed a new order to Sri Lanka, the other party said that the shipment may be abnormal this time. "Previously, we were shipped from the next order to Sri Lanka to the country, and we generally need a two -month cycle." The person in charge said that according to local tea factory feedback in Sri Lanka, due to the shortage of fuel, the local supply cycle must be extended to the local supply cycle to be extended to the local supply cycle to the local supply cycle. 3 months. Sri Lanka: The next two years will be the most critical period

The Wall Street Journal stated that at the beginning of this year, the number of tourists had recovered before the riots occurred in Sri Lanka, but the country's economy was still shrinking by 1.6%in the first quarter of the country. In view of the acceleration of economic acceleration in the second and third quarters, Vicramaxinha had expected that this year's economic recession will be more serious than the affected 2020, and it may shrink by more than 6%.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation said that economists believe that the first thing after the Srihin government took office will be to complete the rescue plan organized with the International Monetary Fund, and the basic essential product is purchased to meet the basic needs of the people. Cadigama, a political economist at the University of Sri Lanka, believes that before determining the future, Sri Lanka first needs to achieve political stability.

"No matter who is the winner, he is facing a huge challenge. The next two years will be the most critical period of Sri Lanka." Sri Lanka Ilan Gamuwa, a political analyst and a writer, Said, "Faced with the current political crisis, no matter who came to power, it is not easy to ensure political stability, but short -term political decisions and new appointments can temporarily suppress existing social anger." ▲