Romania ‘welcomes Chinese with open arms’ as Canada tightens immigration policy
Romania has announced its doors are wide open to the Chinese in a bid to boost its appeal to wealthy mainlanders after Canada tightened its immigration policy.
As Canada tightens its immigration policies amid a crush of wealthy mainlanders, Romania is opening its doors wide to Chinese immigrants.
"We're used to seeing people move out of our country to Western Europe, so we don't have problems with immigration like many countries do," Roman said. "We welcome immigrants from China."
He said that Chinese were "well accepted" in Romanian society.
A rising number of wealthy Chinese are moving to the United States and Europe. Another favoured destination, Canada, has signalled a change in policy with the termination of its Immigrant Investor Programme, which saw about 45,000 mainland applications cancelled.
Roman said there were about 40,000 Chinese in Romania, which has a population of roughly 20.1 million. An investor immigration scheme requires an applicant to invest at least €1 million (HK$10.6 million) or create 100 jobs to become a permanent resident in Romania.