Africa Is a Country published on 7 June 2022 a commentary titled "Africans in China Are on the Move" by Jing Jing Liu.
Discriminatory COVID policies, increasing cost of living, and diminished purchasing power have reduced the Little Africa community (mostly Nigerians) in Guangzhou from an estimated high of 100,000 to just under 5,000 in 2020. Some of the Africans are returning home; others are moving elsewhere in China.