Uncertainty Avoidance In China

At 30 China has a low score on Uncertainty Avoidance. Truth may be relative though in the immediate social circles there is concern for Truth with a capital T and rules (but not necessarily laws) abound. None the less, adherence to laws and rules may be flexible to suit the actual situation and pragmatism is a fact of life. The Chinese are comfortable with ambiguity; the Chinese language is full of ambiguous meanings that can be difficult for Western people to follow. Chinese are adaptable and entrepreneurial. At the time of writing the majority (70% -80%) of Chinese businesses tend to be small to medium sized and family owned. South Africa scores 49 on this dimension and thus has a low preference for avoiding uncertainty. Low UAI societies

As an example, China guests went to an African country to see the customer, the customer had a very cute kids and he touched the girl's head, just say you're beautiful. The customer was very angry because of what the Chinese did, in China is very normal, but in some countries in Africa who are Muslim, they do not allow it. The Chinese felt very strange, and had to apologize for what he did. It was a misunderstanding that just one person cannot touch someone’s body without her permission, this is very dangerous, but it feels normal in China, and it does not necessarily do in African Muslim countries. There are many similar problems, different habits, different values, management employees cannot be so

China also attaches importance to it, and in some African countries, the environment of policies and regulations is still not perfect, and the investment, fiscal and taxation policies are not clear enough, stable; the legal system is not good enough, and its implementation is not perfect. The main reason is that the laws of some African countries are drawn from western countries, but there are few practical implementation. The World Bank has specially designed a set of rule of law indicators to judge the willingness of the people of a country to abide by the law and trust in the country's legal system, and the results of the study show, the degree of rule of law can determine the intangible capital value of 57 % of a country. The index is up to 100, the greater the number, the higher the degree of rule of law. For example, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD ) The average degree of rule of law in member countries is 90, while in Switzerland it is as high as 99, but sub-Saharan Africa averages 28, Ethiopia 16.4, Nigeria and Burundi not even 5 at all. In addition, at the World Bank 2006, in a survey of 175 countries and regions around the world in terms of business facilitation, most of the countries in Africa were ranked because of " stupid rules and regulations " and "