In recent years, with the improvement of the number and quality of immigrants and their descendants as well as international students, the new generation of Chinese in France has a wider range of career choices. In addition to Chinese restaurants, business, Chinese medicine industry, Chinese language teaching, some of them have started to enter the field of employment that is usually French, such as French chef, fashion photographer, lawyer, doctor, etc.

Chinese French Chef

In recent years, French chef has become one of the most popular professions among international students.

Chinese French chefs: need others' affirmation

The French chef program has become a popular one among international students in recent years, and Chef Bao Xu of MURANO French Restaurant believes that the popularity is due to France's success in publicizing its culture of the restaurant industry. Many Chinese students are often blindly motivated to choose this profession just out of their fantasies of romance and success. However, Chinese taste aesthetics are different from the French, and it is quite difficult to get affirmation from teachers and customers during the learning and practicing process, thus those who stick to it are quite limited.

In 2008, Bao Xu began to study French cuisine with a **** there are eight Chinese students, as of this year, six have chosen to give up.

Born in 1980, Cui Yiming began to come to France at the age of 17 to study, graduated from the famous French restaurant GREGOIREFERRANDI, now a three-star Michelin restaurant in France? Four Seasons Group George V Hotel? He is now the second level chef of the French three-star Michelin restaurant, Four Seasons Hotel George V. He has been studying and practicing French cuisine for more than 9 years.

Cui Yiming said that his greatest fulfillment is the look of approval on the faces of his customers when they eat the food he cooks. I really need to be recognized by others so much.?

Chinese lawyers: a long way to go to defend Chinese rights

Lawyers and doctors have always been a high-paying profession in Western countries, and they have to go through a series of selection exams. 28-year-old Lin Yasong, who studied in France and is now a lawyer at the Court of Appeals in Paris, said, "It's hard to be a lawyer in France, but it's not easy to be a lawyer in France. In France, of course, it is difficult to be a lawyer, but as long as the Chinese people's hard-working attitude out, there is nothing difficult to defeat us.

Lin Yasong suggests that Chinese in France should throw away the idea that it is better to do more than less.

Lin Yasong suggests that Chinese in France should throw away the idea that it is better to do more than less. Chinese thinking, encountered unfair treatment to bravely use the law to defend their legitimate rights and interests.

Now there are nearly 30 Chinese lawyers in Paris***, the earliest of whom joined the profession in 1991. Not long ago they set up in Paris? All-French Chinese Lawyers Association? Lin Yasong believes that Chinese lawyers in France have two trump cards: the advantage of Chinese, French and English; proficiency in Chinese and French culture and law. The difficulty of the French language is known to the world, even the Chinese who have lived in France for decades are difficult to skillfully use the French language. Communicating with lawyers in their native language? Chinese language communication, often with French lawyers can achieve twice the effect compared to half the effort, so the Chinese is their important customer base.

Fashion photographer: social network accumulation

As a French photographer, Zhou Xiaonan's work has been reprinted in French newspapers and magazines many times.

In fact, Zhou Xiaonan was a businessman, and after four years of studying economics in France, he decided to pursue a career in photography after two years of thinking and trying. Since he had been a photography enthusiast for many years, he had already mastered the basic theory of photography, Zhou Xiaonan felt that there was no need for him to go back to the photography program, and that it would be much more effective to work directly with a master and gain work experience. So around the time he graduated from college in 2007, he began to send resumes to well-known French photographers for the opportunity to work with them.

Now, Zhou Xiaonan has successfully opened his own photography studio in Paris, which serves a client base of French and Chinese fashion magazines. But he is not satisfied with the current state of his career,? The photography circle in Paris is too closed. Clients always look for photographers they are familiar with and then introduce them to their friends. Without years of social connections, it is difficult to expand his business. Zhou Xiaonan plans to go to London next.