What does Chinese-American mean?

Chinese-Americans are Chinese-Americans (or Chinese-Americans), China people with American nationality or Americans with China descent.

Chinese-American means that his parents or grandparents came from China, and later he joined the United States. He was born in the United States. Chinese-American means that he originally came from China, but later joined the United States.

Chinese-Americans refer to citizens who originally had China citizenship, joined American citizenship for historical and life reasons, and voluntarily gave up China citizenship, or refer to American citizens of China descent. Chinese-Americans are part of the global Chinese community, including American-born people from Taiwan Province Province, China, American-born Chinese Singaporeans and Chinese-Americans who immigrated to the United States from other countries and became American citizens. In 2007, the total number of Chinese was 3.5 million, accounting for 23.3% of the Asian population.

The current situation of Chinese Americans' development

According to the survey data of the US Census Bureau in recent years, the growth rate of Asian population in California is the fastest among all ethnic groups. It has become the second largest minority after Hispanics, with about 4.2 million people, accounting for 13% of California's total population. Among them, Chinese account for 39%, which is the largest Asian ethnic group.

On June 5438+February 65438+February 2009, at a community forum on "The Present Situation of Chinese Americans" held by the Asian Studies Center of UCLA in the town hall of Monterey Park in the eastern suburb of Los Angeles, Wang Lingzhi, a professor at the Asian Studies Center of UCLA, boldly pointed out that more than half of the residents in a city like Mongolia are Chinese, and Chinese have become the mainstream.