The arrival and return of immigrants from China and Australia have increased.

China news service, Canberra, May 28th. According to figures released by the Australian Immigration Department on the 28th, from July to1February 2007, a total of 98,233 people in the world were granted Australian permanent resident status, an increase of 8.8% over the same period last year. Including 9593 in Chinese mainland, 353 in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and 560 in Taiwan Province Province.

Australian permanent residents can be divided into two categories, one is those who come to Australia from overseas and have permanent resident status, and the other is those who arrive on a temporary visa and then obtain permanent resident status. According to the data, from July to February, 2007, 69,597 foreign immigrants came to Australia with permanent residence visas, of which 6/0/04 were born in Chinese mainland, ranking fourth in the world after Britain, New Zealand and India. During the same period, 3,489 China citizens obtained Australian permanent residence status on temporary visas.

According to the report of the Department of Immigration, in the second half of 2007, the number of Chinese mainland permanent residents returning to Australia increased by 8.5% year-on-year, of which 23 18 people returned to Hong Kong,115 people returned to Hong Kong, up by 3. 1% year-on-year, and 582 people returned to Taiwan.