China is soon going to introduce ‘Chinese Card’ for those Chinese people who were born overseas including the South East Asia.
South East Asia has the world’s largest overseas born Chinese population. Around 150 to 80 years ago, 1.5 million Hakka Chinese left Songkou River Town in order to migrate to South East Asia.
The implementation of this citizenship card system is expected to draw in huge number of Chinese people from other countries back to China.
The overseas born Chinese population is expected to come in hoards from particularly South East Asia region which includes countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, India, Mauritius, and Vietnam.
However, there are now plans of building an Overseas Chinese Township between Meizhou City and Songkou. According to reports, Meizhou City is almost four times larger than Singapore and consists of population similar to that of Georgetown, thus, it can incorporate the overseas migrant with a bit of development.
The reports also state that soon the particular area will be visited by the Malaysian Chinese Developers for them to start developing the region in order to accommodate the expected people.
More number of overseas born Chinese especially from South East Asia are finding the idea of going to the region alluring because of low crime rate, short winters, low road accident, zero discrimination, low murder rate and low rate of air pollution.
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