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VOA常速英语听力2012年08月合辑（文本）：African-Immigrants-Talk-About-Life-in-Beijing BEIJING — Chinese companies have invested heavily in Africa in recent years and trade among Asian and African nations has soared. As their economic ties have grown, so have the number of African immigrants to China, now estimated at around half a million people. Turay Lamin owns Africa House, the sole restaurant serving pan-African cuisine in Beijing. Although many of Turay抯 staff and friends are new to China, he is not. Turay moved here in 1989 and says China was a part of his life even as a child... in Sierra rLeone. 揟here was a time when the Chinese were building a cross border-bridge about 10 minutes away from where I grew up and there were so many. That was the first time I saw so many non-Africans,?Lamin said. The construction workers were also the reason he began learning Chinese at 13. 揗y home was a bread-making one, a kind of catering, and we were supplying them with bread. They actually gave me a book, a Chinese book. That抯 when I first learned the word xie xie (thank you),?Lamin said. Many Africans say they come to China for the opportunity to build their entrepreneurial dreams. Adams Bodomo is a professor at Hong Kong University, who spoke to VOA via Skype. 揟hese two parts of the world, China and Africa, are having closer and closer relations at the government level. You are also having closer and closer relations at the people to people level,?Bodomo said. Rose Lin Zamoa moved here six years ago to work as a fashion model and start a catering business. She says China was a shock from her native Ghana. 揑 felt almost like an alien, if you know what I mean,?Zamoa said. She says she is treated differently because of her race, but the questions she faces on a daily basis are more from curiosity than judgment. 揟he kind of racism I experience here is completely different to the racism you would probably experience in America or in London, for example. And, by far, I prefer the kind