Three waves of overseas immigrants

Lixin Qi, president of the Beijing Entry-Exit Intermediaries Association, pointed out in an interview that there have been three waves of overseas immigrants in China:

The first wave appeared in the middle and late 1980s of/kloc-0, mainly in state schools.

The second wave was from the mid-1990s to 2003, during which many low-level skilled workers were exported.

The third wave began in 2007. With the rise of China's economy, some wealthy groups, including the newly rich and the intellectual elite, rely on considerable wealth to emigrate overseas through investment.