The 24-year-old Chinese man made the headlines in Australia by buying a house in full with 40 million dollars.
After all these years of education, Australians are no longer surprised that Chinese people come to buy luxury homes. But the wealth of the Chinese has refreshed the poor imagination of Australians again and again.
A 24-year-old, Lin Junhua, bought a luxury home worth 8 million Australian dollars, worth more than 40 million yuan, in Sydney's famously wealthy district of Cape Pepper and paid for it in full.
Apart from knowing his 24-year-old name is Lin Junhua, his other background information remains mysterious. To Australians, such wealth does not match that of a 24-year-old, and even the property of his father's generation has never seen so much in one go.
Australia's lack of imagination has made such a commonplace in China the headlines in local media. The words "amazing" are used in all the reports.
This is not the first time that the wealth of the Chinese people has been amazing to Australians. In 2015, Chinese wealthy Zhou Ze-rong paid A $70 million, or two hundred and seventy nine million nine hundred and ninety nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine yuan, to a high price of two hundred and seventy nine million nine hundred and ninety nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine yuan. Australian casino tycoon Parker and his ex-wife Baxter's Sydney-based mansion were bought, setting a record price record for a single home in Australian history.
Decades ago, when China was a poor country, most of the Chinese emigrated here were working class, and suddenly the Chinese became so rich that Australians couldn't really figure it out. Chinese people who don't work, where do you get so much money?
The first point is the mystery of Chinese buyers, in addition to reaching out.
Originally, Australia's real estate information is open online, even if you want to find out how many properties the Australian Prime Minister has, you can only find the ambiguous pinyin names of Chinese buyers even if you search the Internet. Where can the Australians understand our profound Chinese Pinyin.
The second point is that Chinese people have so much money, especially some rich people who spend a lot of money, don't seem to have to work at all.
At first, they thought that Chinese people got rich because they were industrious and rich. They really envied envy and hate. But they soon returned to their spirits: these people who spend a lot of money on luxury homes. They are not early Chinese students and immigrants who work day and night in Australia.
These are two groups, two kinds of Chinese. Those who work very hard can, at best, support their families and lead a well-off life. In the words of the Chinese, they are in the "early stage of socialism," and those who are rich in oil flow live directly in the "advanced stage of socialism." You don't have to work at all, or you don't work in Australia at all. They bought a house and occasionally lived, even there, living there, still old and old neighbors, luxury cars often change, in and out of the English-speaking "Australians."
Such a group of mystical, rich and disdainful to integrate into the local community of the Chinese, make Australians resentful. Some Australian media have even voiced the view that those Chinese who have bought luxury homes but do not live are "corrupt officials": what Australia welcomes is those who can come to Australia to create wealth and create jobs. Or emigrants who come here to contribute their knowledge and labor. While corrupt officials have brought money, they will neither invest nor do business. In addition to looking for a few nannies from China to serve them, they are casinos and brothels, although consumption is also a contribution. But it's not as useful to the Australian economy as China thinks.
In this way, all the rich are said to be "corrupt officials". Of course, they are partial, but this is also the case in the early years. In recent years, Australian investment immigration has been hot, except for corrupt officials, more ordinary Chinese middle-class families. They came to Australia. In addition to buying a house, they also had normal work and actively integrated into the local community. Australians gradually learned about this group of emerging Chinese middle classes.
To give an inappropriate example, a property in Australia over the past two days has caused dissatisfaction among local residents because of the "Chinese sign": "this sign has caused many nearby English-speaking residents to feel excluded and have visited many of these apartments themselves," he said. Wanted to find a place to live for his son, but was told that it was sold mainly to the Chinese. " The developers made it clear that the apartment was built to sell to Chinese people, because there are many schools nearby, and Chinese people buy homes so that their children can receive a better education.
Look, people in Australia know more about us. Even the real estate name is called "Hanlin Garden", which Chinese parents do not want son Jackie Chan, hope that the family out of a "Hanlin"? The fact that the Chinese are called "Tu'ao" has also been discovered by the Australians. In addition to knowing that we are willing to spend our blood in order to educate our children, the Australians also know that these Chinese people call themselves "Tuao" all day behind their backs, and it is not true that they do not regard Australia as unimportant.
Chinese people like to give other countries nicknames, some purely just call fun, and there is no harm. For example, Britain is called "rotten country", the United States is called "American emperor", and Australia is called "earth Australia".
I think that Australia is not as fashionable as the United States, Britain, but also sparsely populated, more kangaroos than people, compared with China's north, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, there are not so many skyscrapers, like a big country. As a result, a mouthful of "Tu'ao" was discovered by Australians, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) specifically gave the people of Australia a chance to popularize science, what is "Tu'ao". Australians also listen to a joke, and think that the word "earth Australia" is very evocative, Australia is very earthy, began a round of self-deprecation.
Australia's joke: this is an Australian traffic peak. Let's feel the Australian people know that this is a kind joke of the Chinese people. If they really despise Australia, they will not spend a lot of money on buying houses, traveling, and sending their children to read, and if they really look down on Australia, they will not spend a lot of money on buying houses, traveling, and sending their children to school. Even the whole family emigrated.
Since the first Chinese landed in Australia 200 years ago, it has been a popular destination for Chinese immigrants. At present, Chinese immigrants account for 5% of Australia's total population, reaching about 1.3 million people.
There is a saying: "Australia has gradually become the back garden of the Chinese people." It's not an exaggeration. In Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, the three cities with the largest Chinese population, you can feel the presence of Chinese elements everywhere. For example, Chinese signboards can be seen everywhere. Also the Chinese team went to Sydney away to fight, every time will come a large number of overseas Chinese and foreign students, hard to turn away into a home.
In the face of the expansion of the Chinese territory, government is determined to make it another CBD. in the eastern part of Melbourne, which is occupied by more than half of China's red territory.
Another strong evidence that the Chinese "occupy" Australia is the number of overseas students. Australia has for many years been the second largest country in which Chinese have chosen to study in addition to the United States. At the same time, the number of Chinese students studying in Australia exceeds that of India and Vietnam. South Korea and Malaysia combined accounted for 28.5% of all students in Australia.
Since it's the back Garden, it's natural to go on a vacation or something. Chinese visitors to Australia climbed year after year, reaching 1.3 million in 2016, up 28.4 percent from last year, and almost all of these years growing at a rate of 20 percent.
Light travel certainly can not be in-depth communication, many Chinese come to Australia, not only to see good mountains, good water and kangaroo koala, but also the idea of buying a house to buy land.
In 2016, Australia followed the United States among the target countries for overseas purchase of housing by Chinese people, ranking second in the country with the strongest Chinese intention to buy a house.
In 2015, Chinese people spent $28.6 billion on home purchases in the United States, compared with more than 25 billion in Australia. At present, 15 percent of Australia's new homes are bought by Chinese people, and Credit Suisse Bank Group recently predicted that Chinese investors will buy 20 percent of Australia's new homes by 2020.
Australia, really has become our back garden, work hard, hope that more Chinese people, through their own efforts, in Australia to lead a more free and happy life.