Al-Jazeera (who have recently landed on American airwaves, by the way) takes a look at the phenomenon of mainland Chinese citizens popping over to Hong Kong to pop out their babies (known as 'Birth Tourism') in order to ensure their children are Hong Kong citizens, and other ways that the Special Administrative Region's public services sectors are being stretched by PRC citizens. more ›

A new study looking at the Overseas Chinese experience edited by Fujian's Huaqiao University (华侨大学) claims that less than a third of Chinese students who've studied abroad since 1978 eventually return to China. From 1978 to 2009, only 497,400 students out of the 1.62 million who've left have made their way back to China. The new findings are in line with the trend of everyone and their corrupt fifth uncle wanting to get out of China, which leads us to suspect that for the majority of Chinese, the true meaning of the Chinese Dream is to simply find a way to leave. more ›

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They saw, they conquered, they came into riches... and now they're getting the hell out of here. At least, that's what a new study of China's rich purports. Released last week by China Merchants Bank and consulting firm Bain & Company, the "2011 China Private Wealth Study" says that 60% of Chinese with more than $15 million to their name have now left or are planning to leave. more ›

Looks like ridiculous housing prices at home isn't the only reason to move to Canada - it's actually just so nice over there, eh? At least that's what 77% of Chinese people think (and 53% of adults in the world's 24 leading economies for that matter). To them, not only does Canada have "one of the best qualities of life anywhere in the world" and tolerance of all types of people, it's also a country that's "welcoming to immigrants" and where "rights and freedoms are respected." This bodes well for both Canada's attempts to lure in more global talent and for its population to finally grow beyond that of Shanghai and its surrounding area. more ›

Yesterday, Chinasmack posted up another one of those Chinese people hating on foreign guys who get with Chinese chicks translations which was... well, you've seen one, you've seen them all. But it piqued the curiosity of C. Custer at china/divide, who felt that a lot of the assumptions (especially things like disrespecting Chinese women and being a Mainland version of FILTH) just didn't seem to be true. So he devised a little poll (for foreigners) to see if at least the readership at china/divide was like that. So if you are a laowai, wai not try it out? more ›

Chinese officials have starting drafting the country’s first immigration law in order to manage the skyrocketing numbers of foreigners who have come to China in the past few years. The first draft of the law is expected to classify potential immigrants into different categories such as skilled or unskilled labor and job and investor immigration, according to state media. more ›

In case you didn't think our cities were crowded enough, an official has predicted that some 300 million Chinese currently living in rural areas will move into urban centers during the next 15 to 20 years. 300 MILLION, aka the population of the United States aka half the population not living in cities right now. The official was pretty upbeat about it, arguing that the fast pace of urbanization will create at least 1 trillion yuan in annual investment opportunities - building water supplies, waste treatments, heating and other public utilities. We're not anti-city by any means, but this sounds like a disaster. Not only do we already have some of the world's densest cities, but weren't we all about encouraging farmers to stay on the land last year? What's with the sudden about face? Source: China Daily more ›

- Betty Brown (R-TX), in response to testimony by Organization of Chinese Americans spokesperson Ramey Ko over how voter ID legislation may create problems for Asian immigrants because of name transliteration issues.