Chinese Communication Styles

GuangZhou is one of the main cities that organize trading in China. In every state of Guangzhou, it will have different trading markets selling different accessories. But the way the Chinese communicate is really different from the Western countries. Speak fluent mandarin is the most important thing if businessman and women wants to do business in China. Mandarin is being the most common as well as the official dialect; it can be difficult to do business in many parts of China without the aid of a translator. Although there are fluent English speakers exist in china but the level falls away very quickly.

Many people would like to do business in china because the business market and the population is so big, things that nobody would by at some countries but many people would buy it in china. Misunderstandings will always happen in the Chinese market, people will think that you are cheating him and they will start a fight or argument with them. This is big disadvantages for you because you are a foreigner, you don’t know the rules of the business market in china, you might be cheated by them in the mode that you didn’t even know what had happened.

Chinese find saying “no” is extremely difficult for them to tell their customers because they didn’t want to chase them away so they will reject them in a more polite way such as “yes, but it’s quite difficult”. But not every trader in China are like that, some people came from small villages they don’t know the basic etiquette that they are suppose to show in front of their customers. Some traders’ attitude is like if you don’t to buy, if you these are too expensive, put my things down and leave. This is how they behave, that’s why some customers cannot stand them and got into a fight with them.

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“Chinese Communication Styles”

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