Top 5 reasons for living on Chinese mainland

By Zhang Junmian
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The top 5 purposes for people from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and foreign countries to stay on the Chinese mainland are as follows: business, employment, study, settlement and visiting relatives.

Currently, the number of these people is 1,020,145 by Nov. 1, 2010, as shown by the sixth national census data released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS) late in April.

The following list shows the top 5 reasons for them to stay on the Chinese mainland.

Rank

No. of Residents

Purpose

1

204,962

Business

2

201,955

Employment

3

202,482

Study

4

186,648

Settlement

5

100,113

Visiting relatives

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also see Top 10 nationalities of foreigners on Chinese mainland

                Top 10 Chinese regions with non-mainland residents

                Top 10 most populous Chinese regions

                Top 10 least populous Chinese regions

 

 

 

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