I really want to know how powerful the potential power of tens of millions of Chinese people distributed around the world is.

China News Agency released the 2008 World Chinese Business Development Report on February 2009, which made an overall study on the situation of overseas Chinese in China in the past 30 years of reform and opening up. According to the report, there were about 40 million overseas Chinese in 2000. In 2008, it was about 44 million, and the latest statistics may have reached 60 million, which is an amazing growth rate.

Among them, since the reform and opening up, the number of new overseas Chinese who immigrated directly from mainland China has reached 8 million. These new immigrants have also greatly changed the structure of Chinese businessmen in the world, and they began to expand their business scope to developed countries and regions such as North America, Western Europe, Australia and Japan. For example, in the United States, there were about 2 million overseas Chinese in 2000, and now there are 4 million. Japan has also increased from the original 6.5438+0.7 million to 700,000, and France has increased from 300,000 to more than 700,000.

China people have been engaged in low-level working-class in their early years, and now the proportion of vocational, technical and service occupations has increased year by year, and the number of people engaged in industrial and commercial trade activities has also increased significantly. At the same time, Xinhua Overseas Chinese also provide labor for China enterprises; Changing the economic structure of China Port has spawned an industrial chain centered on Chinatown; Expand the breadth and depth of the host country's service industry.

From the ancestral home of overseas Chinese, Guangdong has the largest number, accounting for 54%; The second is Fujian nationality 25%; Hainanese account for 6%, and other provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions account for 15% (mainly Taiwan Province, Guangxi, Shandong, Xinjiang and Yunnan).