Brief introduction of overseas immigration tide

The "surge phenomenon" caused by such a large-scale "overseas migration tide" in China deserves high attention. The migration tide not only caused the loss of wealth, talents, tax burden and consumption in China, but also had a far-reaching impact on the establishment of "Olive Society" in China. From the perspective of immigrants themselves, it is not worth making a fuss about. The process of global integration promotes the migration of international population, and migration is only a manifestation of the increasingly frequent global economic, social and cultural exchanges. Although China has become the largest exporter of immigrants in the world in terms of quantity, the proportion of immigrants from China is still low in the world. It seems alarmist to generalize "immigration" as a kind of "tide". However, the reasons behind these rich immigrants are still worth exploring and pondering. According to the survey in the above report, the top three reasons for rich people to invest in immigration are: "facilitating children's education" accounts for 58%, "ensuring wealth security" accounts for 43%, and "preparing for future pension" accounts for 32%.

Since 1987, among the nearly 800,000 young talents lost overseas in China, there are 30 college students from Peking University and 30 students from Tsinghua, which also raises concerns about brain drain. In contrast, the main body of the current immigration tide is the social elite and the newly rich, and the means of immigration is mainly investment, so this expanding immigration tide is also called the capital transfer tide. In fact, the speed of Chinese immigration is indeed accelerating gradually. According to the data of immigration offices in various countries, China has become the largest source country of investment immigrants. According to the latest China Private Wealth Report 20 1 1 issued by China Merchants Bank, there are 500,000 people in China who have invested more than 1000 million yuan, and nearly 60% of the mainland rich interviewed have completed the consideration of investment immigration or investment immigration, and this trend is particularly obvious among the groups whose individual investable assets exceed 1 000 million yuan.

An immigration expert in Beijing said: The main force of this wave of immigration in the new century is the newly rich class above the middle class, so investment immigration has become the mainstream of immigration now. This is an important difference from the immigration tide in previous years. Nowadays, there are more owners. I used to go out to explore the world, but now I go out with money. Another main purpose of these investment immigrants may be the education of their children. If you want to get an identity, there will be many benefits and conveniences for your children to study abroad, whether in high school, junior high school or university. In addition, they also have some business considerations.

According to incomplete statistics, as of 2009, there were about 6.5438+0.62 million Chinese students studying abroad, ranking first in the world, but only 490,000 returned to China. According to the report "Global Politics and Security" published by China Academy of Social Sciences in 2007, China has become the largest exporter of immigrants in the world. It is reported that the global target number of Canadian investment immigrants in 2009 is 2,055, and the quota of Chinese mainland accounts for about 1000. Based on the initial investment price of 400,000 Canadian dollars, the wealth flowing from China to Canada in 2009 was at least 2.35 billion RMB, equivalent to the China Pavilion of a World Expo.

On June 10, the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council announced that the number of overseas Chinese in China has exceeded 45 million, ranking first in the world in absolute terms. A group of reports in the Economic Observer at the end of 20 10 mentioned that since the reform and opening up, there have been three waves of immigrants in China. Different from the two waves of immigration in the late 1970s, which were dominated by bottom-level workers and in the late 1990s, the main force of the third wave of immigration was the newly rich and the intellectual elite, which intensified in the first 10 year of the new century. In Canada alone, 400,000 Chinese have settled in the past 65,438+00 years.

Especially since 20 10, the immigration tide in China has intensified. The number of business immigrants has increased by 20% ~ 30%, mainly engaged in processing trade, mining, financial investment, real estate and other industries, mainly business owners or business executives. As a result, more and more rich people in China emigrate overseas, resulting in a large loss of domestic wealth and talents. Roughly speaking, at present, China's wealthy immigrants spend as much as 5 billion yuan a year in Canada, the United States and Australia, and at least 654.38+07 billion yuan has flowed abroad in the last three years, which does not include their other investments in immigrant countries.