Top 10 Chinese regions with non-mainland residents

By Zhang Junmian
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Guangdong, Shanghai and Beijing are the top 3 Chinese regions with the most non-mainland residents, according to the sixth national census data released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS) late in April.

The census figures show that a total of 1,020,145 people from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and foreigners were living on the Chinese mainland by Nov. 1, 2010. Of these non-Chinese mainland residents, 593,832 are foreign nationals, 234,829 are from Hong Kong, 21,201 from Macao, and 170,283 from Taiwan.

People from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, as well as foreigners residing on the Chinese mainland were surveyed for the first time in the once-in-a-decade census which began in November last year.

The following is the list of the top 10 Chinese regions with the most non-mainland residents

Rank

Region

Non-mainland residents

1

Guangdong

316,138

2

Shanghai

208,602

3

Beijing

107,445

4

Jiangsu

64,177

5

Fujian

62,564

6

Yunnan

47,396

7

Zhejiang

36,380

8

Shandong

33,098

9

Liaoning

23,834

10

Guangxi

23,445

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Also see Top 5 reasons for living on Chinese mainland

                Top 10 nationalities of foreigners on Chinese mainland

                Top 10 most populous Chinese regions

                Top 10 least populous Chinese regions

 

 

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