What are Chinese overseas Chinese?

Chinese is the abbreviation of "China people". Chinese people are said to have ancestors of Yanhuang and their ancestral home of China. They are the concepts of cultural identity and blood identity.

Overseas Chinese refer to people with China nationality who live abroad. It does not include tourists traveling abroad, workers and technicians sent by the government to other countries to assist in construction, public servants and overseas students sent by the state.

Most people in China can speak Chinese. In East Asia, Chinese (or China people) in countries influenced by China culture can generally speak Chinese (including Chinese dialects) and read Chinese.

Outside Asia, except for the first generation of Chinese immigrants, most of the second and third generation Chinese (including mixed-race Chinese) rarely read Chinese, or can only speak spoken Chinese, or even don't know Chinese at all, and can only communicate in the local language.

Extended data:

There are Brunei, Laos, North Korea, Nepal, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Mauritius, Reunion, Madagascar,

32 countries and regions including South Africa, Mexico, Panama, Guatemala, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica, Peru, Argentina, Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Paraguay, Guyana, Suriname, New Zealand, Tahiti and Western Samoa;

There are 26 countries and regions with overseas Chinese 1000- 10000.

There are 100 overseas Chinese living in 29 countries and regions. The above *** 104 countries and regions. The total number of overseas Chinese in more than 50 other countries and regions does not exceed 2,000, ranging from dozens to 35.

According to the origin of overseas Chinese, Guangdong nationality accounts for 54%, Fujian nationality accounts for 25%, Hainan nationality accounts for 6%, and other provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions account for 15% (mainly Taiwan Province, Guangxi, Shandong, Xinjiang and Yunnan).

In Southeast Asia, the ratio of Guangdong, Fujian and other provinces and cities is 5: 3: 2; Outside Asia, Cantonese accounts for the vast majority. If divided by dialects, people who use six dialects: Minnan dialect, Hakka dialect, Guangfu dialect, Chaozhou dialect, Hainan dialect, Mindong dialect (Fuzhou dialect) and Hakka dialect. About 80% of the total number of overseas Chinese. More than 5 million people use the first four dialects, and about 3 million people use the last two dialects.

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