How many overseas Chinese are there in China?

How many overseas Chinese are there? This figure may not be clear to anyone. It used to be estimated that there were more than 20 million people, but now it is said that there are more than 30 million people. Because there is no official registration in various places, there is no accurate figure. More than 20 million and 30 million are only rough estimates, but most people hold the figure of 30 million.

It is hard to say how many Chinese there are in the world, how many overseas Chinese there are in the Philippines and how many people there are in China. No one can say for sure, and there are no exact figures. Why? For the same reason, the relevant authorities have not officially registered and have no accurate figures.

It used to be said that there were about 50,000 overseas Chinese registered with the Philippine Immigration Bureau every year. Together with the naturalized Chinese, there are about 1.5 million to 2 million Chinese, accounting for about 2% of the total population of the Philippines. However, according to the information recently obtained by Ciqiao Foundation from the Immigration Bureau, there are more than 70,000 overseas Chinese registered in the Immigration Bureau every year. If those who hold travel documents but do not report to the Immigration Bureau all the year round are counted, there may be more than 70,000 overseas Chinese in the Philippines.

In the past 20 years, tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of China citizens have entered the Philippines. Although some of these people have changed their identities, there are not a few who retain China citizenship. Some of them may not report for duty all year. If you add these people together, it is probably 65,438+10,000.

Due to the lack of official statistics, not only the number of overseas Chinese in the Philippines is uncertain, but also other countries in Southeast Asia have this problem. I went to China to attend a conference and met Mr. Zhang Mingkai, president of Thousand Island Daily in Surabaya. The dialogue involves Indonesian Chinese characters. He told the author that due to well-known reasons, most Chinese in Indonesia have now joined the local nationality, but how many Chinese are there? Indonesia's official statement is 6.5438+million, but according to local Chinese's own estimation, it is far more than this figure, with about 6.5438+0.6 million people. 100000 and160000 differ by 6 million people. Because there are no official statistics, it is difficult to say which one is correct.

In view of the fact that local overseas Chinese have not been officially registered in various places for decades, it is impossible to get an accurate figure. This is the case in the Philippines, Indonesia and other places. The number of Chinese in the world can only be roughly said to be more than 30 million.