10 October 2 1 confirm the date.

101October 2 1 confirmed as Overseas Chinese Day.

The birthday anniversary of the famous patriotic overseas Chinese leader and the death anniversary of the famous patriotic Democrat Li.

65438+1October 2 1 is the 294th day of the solar calendar year (the 295th day of leap year), and there are still 7 1 day before the end of the year.

Brief introduction of overseas Chinese:

Overseas Chinese are natural persons with China nationality who are designated to live abroad. Overseas Chinese are citizens of People's Republic of China (PRC), enjoying the rights of citizens of China and fulfilling their corresponding obligations according to law. The Constitution of China clearly stipulates that it is the responsibility of the China government to protect the legitimate rights and interests of overseas Chinese.

Overseas Chinese do not include those who travel and visit abroad, workers and technicians sent by the government to other countries to assist in construction, public servants and overseas students sent by the state. People of China descent who have joined or acquired foreign nationality cannot be regarded as overseas Chinese.

According to the statistics of China International Migration Report (20 15), there are more than 60 million overseas Chinese living in 198 countries and regions around the world.

From the distribution of continents, there are 36.27 million people in Asia, accounting for 78%; 8.9 million people in the United States, accounting for15%; Europe has 6.5438+0.7 million people, accounting for 5%; Oceania 1 10,000 people, accounting for1.7%; There are 654.38 million people in Africa, accounting for 0.3%.

By country and region, 73% of overseas Chinese are concentrated in Southeast Asia, only Indonesia (20 million)? Thailand (8.5 million) and Malaysia (6.4 million) account for about 60% of the total number of overseas Chinese in the world.