What does Thai Chinese mean?

Thai Chinese refer to Chinese or mixed-race people who were born in Thailand and have Thai nationality. Their parents or ancestors are Chinese, and they went to Thailand and settled in Thailand, and they have Thai nationality.

Thai Chinese and ethnic Chinese account for a large proportion of the total population of Thailand and are important groups in Thailand, and Thai Chinese have a relatively high political status in Thailand.

Thai Chinese refers to the Chinese living in Thailand. There are tens of millions of Thai Chinese, accounting for 12% to 14% of the total population of Thailand, and a considerable part of them come from the Chaoshan region of Guangdong, China. Chaoshan people can be found in more than 100 countries and regions around the world. Thailand is the country with the highest concentration of overseas Chaoshan people. According to incomplete statistics, there are about 10 million Thai Chinese whose ancestral home is in the Chaoshan area. There are also more than 1 million Hakkas whose ancestral home is in Hakka areas such as Meizhou, and there are about 20 million Thais with Chinese ancestry, about one-third of the country's total population. The Chinese in Thailand are divided into two major groups. One is the old overseas Chinese, mainly Chaoshan people, who have lived in Thailand for more than two generations; the other group is the new immigrants.