The population of Lianjiang county

Lianjiang is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese in Fujian Province. There are 332 157 overseas Chinese and Hong Kong and Macao people from Lianjiang. Among them, there are 74,889 overseas Chinese, Chinese13881person, 9,428 overseas Chinese1person, Hong Kong residents18,302 people, and 5,874 Macao residents, who are distributed in the United States, Japan, Australia, Britain and Canada. Lianjiang people have a long history of immigration. Lianjiang County Records records that Lianjiang people traveled between China and Indonesia in the Song Dynasty. In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1644), the Huang family in Baisha village, a suburb, went to Japan for business for decades and was buried in the Tang Dynasty cemetery in the back hill of Chongfu Temple in Nagasaki. According to a field trip by Japanese scholar Yasuo Miyata, one of the cemeteries is Lianjiang people. In the 1990s, Jiang Xia Li Cheng ("Jiang Xia" is Huang's county name), a descendant of Baisha Huang family in Kagoshima City, Japan, held an ancestor worship ceremony in Baisha Huang Ancestral Hall. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, some westerners abducted Fuzhou people to Southeast Asia, Africa (such as reunion island), the United States, Mexico and other places, which was called "contract Chinese workers". Because of the poor treatment, many Fuzhou people resented it as "selling piglets" at that time.

According to statistics, from the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty to the early years of the Republic of China, about 1 10 overseas Chinese were contract Chinese laborers. /kloc-after the 1980s, the number of Lianjiang people who emigrated abroad increased greatly. They are mainly rural farmers, and a large number of them have entered and stayed in developed countries such as the United States in various ways, belonging to illegal immigrants. According to media reports, many illegal immigrants, including Lianjiang people, live in a difficult life in the country where they live, are at the lower level of society, and seek legalization of their identity through various methods. There are also many people who immigrate through existing kinship. Most of these new immigrants live in new york, USA. Since the end of the 20th century, the phenomenon of illegal immigrants in Fuzhou coastal counties and cities has attracted the attention of China police. Seven villages in five townships in Lianjiang County have been listed as illegal immigration remediation areas, making it more difficult for local residents to apply for passports. At the same time, the phenomenon of illegal immigration makes it more difficult for Lianjiang residents to apply for visas in developed countries such as Europe and America.