Why do Japanese seldom visit China?

Japan is a neighbor of China separated by a sea. Speaking of Japan, everyone is familiar with it, especially China people. They have a lot of feelings about this country, which is unclear and confusing.

As we all know, Japan is a highly developed capitalist country. According to the data, Japan's per capita GDP in 218 is as high as $39,287, while China's per capita GDP is much weaker, only $9,462.

In this regard, someone asked, in such a highly developed and rich country, people should love spending, enjoying, traveling and pursuing the quality of life. In addition, China is so close to Japan, and most of the goods are good and cheap, but why is it that few Japanese people come to China to travel?

First of all, it has something to do with the social and economic development of China.

Indeed, compared with the number of outbound tourists from China, the number of Japanese tourists visiting China is much smaller. Especially in recent years, the number of Japanese tourists visiting China has gradually decreased. According to the data, from 198 to 1997, the number of Japanese tourists to China increased year by year, and from 24 to 27, it was the peak of Japanese visitors to China. In 27, the number of Japanese tourists visiting China reached a record 3.978 million. After 28, the number of tourists visiting China tends to decline due to the global financial crisis. ? Since 212, influenced by the political relations between China and Japan, it has further declined.

The reason for this phenomenon is closely related to the social and economic development of China at that time. In the 198s and 199s, although China has carried out reform and opening up, its economy has made great progress. But on the whole, the living standard of the whole people is still very low, and the people live in poverty and backwardness. At that time, Japan had already completed industrial reform and realized modernization.

Therefore, when Japanese people with a little money came to China and went anywhere, they could be called absolute "big bosses" and local tyrants. Now, after 2 or 3 years of development, China's comprehensive national strength is increasing day by day, and the standard of tourism consumption is also greatly improved.

However, the Japanese work hard every day, and their wages and money are basically the same. Faced with the rising tourism costs and similar tourist attractions, the Japanese have wisely set their sights on the Southeast Asian tourism market with higher cost performance, such as Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam and other countries with relatively low living standards. In this way, people can spend the least money and enjoy more quality services and material resources.

Secondly, China is not the first choice for Japanese tourists.

As we all know, Sino-Japanese relations are quite special. For a long time, there have been some gaps between the people of the two countries, which has affected the Japanese people's interest in China tourism to varying degrees.

Thirdly, the Japanese don't know China as well as we thought.

In p>216, the research group of Peking University's "In-depth Study on Strengthening the Soft Power of China's Foreign Communication Culture" conducted a questionnaire survey in Japan. The results showed that Japanese people's awareness, interest and love of China's cultural products were generally low, such as Tong Ren Tang, Confucius Institute and Jingdezhen porcelain. For a person who doesn't even know much about the basic situation of other countries, it is obviously not acceptable for everyone to make him travel and take risks in that country.

Finally, the demonization criticism of western media has influenced the Japanese imperceptibly.

In recent years, with the development of China's economy, politics and other aspects, and the continuous improvement of the country's comprehensive strength, there are more and more foreign doubts. As the saying goes, "a big tree attracts the wind" and "there are many people who are red", that's all. Some media people, regardless of professional ethics, deliberately discredited and vilified China, which also affected the Japanese people's examination and views on China to varying degrees.

Evaluation

In a word, although China and Japan are separated by a strip of water, their national conditions, social customs and ideas are quite different. The decrease in the number of Japanese tourists to China is related to many factors. Of course, the decrease in the number of tourists now does not mean that it will remain the same in the future. ?

References:

China Culture in the Eyes of Japanese