Are Beijingers northerners?

Within the Fifth Ring Road, there are about 6 million Beijing residents. Within the Fifth Ring Road, there are approximately 4 million Beijingers with southern ancestry, and the rest are from the north.

Beyond the Fifth Ring Road, there are about 7.3 million people registered in Beijing. At least 6.5 million people have northern ancestry, and at least more than 6 million people are of Hebei origin.

So Beijing is a place where there are many southerners inside and almost all northerners outside. Overall, there are more than 13.3 million people with registered residence in Beijing, and only less than 5 million people are from the south. Still, northerners are the most popular. many. But the main reason is that Beijing has incorporated a lot of land in Hebei into Beijing. More than 6 million people in the suburbs are from Hebei. Therefore, Beijing is generally dominated by northerners.

If you define Beijing according to the five rings, then there are more ethnic groups in the south than in the north. Beijing is a city of immigrants. Because China originally has more than 800 million people in the south, and only more than 500 million people in the north.

However, there are still about 7 million permanent residents in Beijing who are outsiders. The ratio of southerners to northerners is about 3:4. More northerners come to Beijing to work, especially in Hebei, Shandong, Northeast, and Shanxi. There are also people from Henan. Those from the south who come to Beijing are mainly college students who passed the college entrance examination and then studied in Beijing. Most of them are employed in Beijing. It is rare for real migrant workers from the south to come to Beijing to look for work, because Guangzhou, Xiamen, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Shanghai and other places are also suitable for working. , you don’t have to come to Beijing.