Do I have to live in Canada after successfully applying for immigration to Canada?

Under normal circumstances, you are required to live in Canada after immigrating to Canada. However, there are also some ways to reasonably avoid the residence requirement.

Canada has immigration supervision, requiring maple leaf card holders to live for two years within five years of obtaining an immigration visa before retaining permanent resident status. As long as they are not citizens, they must always fulfill this obligation. You can apply for naturalization if you have lived in Canada for 1460 days (4 years) within 6 years. After becoming a Canadian citizen, there will be no restrictions on residence requirements.

Ways to escape Canadian immigration supervision;

Canadian overseas company.

Theoretically, the best way is to be hired by a Canadian company and assigned to work in China, so the time spent working in China can also be counted as the time spent living in China. Alternatively, if your spouse or parents (who have obtained permanent residency) are employed full-time by Canadian federal public service agencies and sent to work in China, you can also accompany them as family members to live in China without staying in Canada.

Accompany a naturalized spouse to live overseas.

This is the most common method used by Canadian immigrants from China. According to the immigration regulations, when one spouse is a citizen and the other resident accompanies the citizen (spouse) from Canada to overseas, he is exempted from living in China.