The results of the 2011 questionnaire on the living conditions of overseas Chinese were released

The results of the 2011 questionnaire on the living conditions of overseas Chinese were released The most influential Chinese community website overseas has recently launched the annual "Overseas Chinese Life...

Identity

Among the overseas Chinese surveyed, 69% of the respondents were immigrants or held work visas, an increase of 6% compared with the survey results of the same period in 2010, and an increase of nearly 16% compared with the survey results of the previous year. Correspondingly, the proportion of overseas Chinese surveyed dropped by 10.5%, a drop of 26.7% from 44.4% the year before. This is a significant change in the proportion of overseas Chinese surveyed in the past two years.

>Time spent living overseas

According to the survey, overseas Chinese who have been abroad for 5 to 10 years account for the largest proportion, which is basically the same as the 41.5% of the previous year. However, those who have lived abroad for more than 1 year The proportion of respondents in 2009 increased from 10.3% in 2009 to 34.3% this year, an increase of 14.5% from last year. The proportion of respondents who have lived overseas for 3 to 5 years decreased by 7.2%, and the proportion of respondents who have lived overseas for 1 to 3 years decreased by 6.5%. The proportion of interviewed netizens who have been abroad for less than a year and those who were born overseas has basically remained unchanged. It can be seen that the number of netizens who have settled overseas in the medium and long term is increasing significantly.

Marriage and Love Status

According to the survey, 42% of the Chinese respondents to this survey are unmarried, a decrease of 5% from last year. This is a significant decrease compared with 64% of the year before. The proportion of married overseas Chinese reached 54.4%, an increase of nearly 6% from last year. In 2009, the proportion of married people was less than 30%. The proportion of surveyed netizens who are single and not in a relationship has dropped by nearly 6% from 30% last year, which means that the proportion of casual friends has increased significantly. The proportion of overseas Chinese respondents who are married and have children increased by 6.6% from 32.9% last year to 39.5%.

In the gender topic survey on leftover men and leftover women, 21.7% of overseas Chinese respondents admitted that they were leftover men or leftover women. This proportion increased by 7% compared with last year. It can be seen that the proportion of overseas Chinese who "hate marriage" and are eager to get married has increased significantly. This echoes the current phenomenon that the topic of marriage and love has become a hot topic in society.对于单身的海外华人来说，他们更加容易接受的结交配偶方式是朋友和生活社交。 The proportions of the two increased by 8.6% and 6.5% respectively compared with last year, and the proportion of accepting blind dates also increased by nearly 2%. Among the overseas netizens surveyed, the majority had a fixed couple or a stable married life, reaching 62.7%, an increase of 19.5% from last year.

Occupation

In the three years since the financial crisis swept the world, the employment issue of overseas Chinese has also become a focus of attention. The proportion of overseas Chinese employees who participated in the survey increased from 61.8% last year to 68.1% this year, an increase of 24.5% from the previous year. This shows that the employment situation of overseas Chinese has greatly improved. The proportion of unemployed netizens dropped by 4.3%, which is gratifying. According to the survey, the proportion of interviewed netizens who consider themselves to be in the upper-middle income level of the local country is 63.7%, an increase of 17.9% from 45.8% last year. The proportion of overseas Chinese respondents who believe that their income is sufficient for their expenses has increased from 75.2% in the same period last year to 84% this year, an increase of 20.8% from the previous year. It can be seen that the overall quality of life of overseas Chinese has improved significantly.

The pressure and difficulties of living overseas

The income of overseas Chinese netizens has improved, which has significantly improved the economic pressure of overseas Chinese. The proportion of respondents experiencing financial pressure dropped from 27.1% the year before to 24% this year, which was also a decrease of 1.4% from last year. However, the pressure on children's education has increased, with an increase of 1.6% compared to last year, and an even higher increase of 6.6% compared with the year before. Therefore, news about children’s education, such as “Tiger Moms” and “Tiger Dads” in the United States, will attract more and more attention from overseas Chinese families and become a hot topic in society.

Among the respondents, the proportion of overseas netizens who choose to go online to relieve stress increased from 32.5% in 2010 to 43.3% in 2010, an increase of 24.6% compared with 18.7% in 2009. The Internet plays an even more important role in the lives of overseas Chinese. It is the main way and way for overseas Chinese to relieve stress and relieve boredom.

Among the respondents, the proportion of netizens who felt uncomfortable with the culture of their country and unable to integrate into the local mainstream society increased by 6.9%. Even compared with the previous year, it also increased by 2.8%. The proportion of overseas Chinese who are distressed by being unable to support their parents has increased year by year from 12.5% ​​the year before to 20.3% this year. The tangled mentality of being unable to support their parents because they live overseas has become more and more common among overseas Chinese.

Difficulties in job promotion overseas

For Chinese people who have worked or plan to work overseas, there are bottlenecks in job promotion, and there are many influencing factors. In the minds of overseas Chinese, language communication is the biggest obstacle. More than 35.4% of Chinese in this survey believe that language difficulties affect their career development, an increase of 6.6% from last year. More and more overseas Chinese believe that among the factors that influence the development of overseas careers, personal connections are more important. The proportion of overseas Chinese netizens surveyed who hold this view has increased by 2.1% compared with last year.

Foreign language proficiency

What is worrying is that more than 10% of overseas Chinese have very poor foreign language proficiency. This proportion has increased by 6.1% compared to last year, while less than 30% of the surveyed netizens who can master foreign languages ​​​​overseas have dropped by 3.6% from last year.

Returning to China for Development

According to the survey, less than 30% of the surveyed overseas netizens have plans to return to China, which is a significant decrease of 31.3% from last year. The number of overseas Chinese who hold a wait-and-see attitude and are unsure about their plans to return home increased sharply to 47.3%, an increase of 21.7% from last year.

Recently, there have been an increasing number of news reports about a large number of domestic wealthy people immigrating or intending to immigrate overseas. In addition, more and more negative domestic social news have been repeatedly exposed. Some reports on the dark side of Chinese society are believed to have affected the enthusiasm of overseas Chinese to return to the country to a certain extent.

Faced with "returnees", most Chinese are wary of the country's deteriorating natural environment and food safety, and are very repulsive to the country's bad social customs. The imperfect social security system in China also discourages many overseas Chinese.

>Acquire foreign nationality

With the increasing news of celebrities such as Jet Li and Gong Li becoming foreign nationalities, more and more overseas Chinese are beginning to consider this issue. Nearly 50% of overseas Chinese respondents definitely believe that if conditions and opportunities allow in the future, they will choose to become a foreign national. This proportion increased by 6.5% from last year. Only 21.2% of the respondents said they would definitely not become a foreign national, a decrease of 3.5% from last year. It can be seen that the temptation of foreign nationality is significantly increasing.

For most overseas Chinese interviewees, the biggest reason for naturalization is for the freedom and convenience of entering and exiting the country. The second reason is that they can enjoy better benefits by becoming a foreign national. Nearly 10% of the overseas Chinese surveyed plan to become foreign nationals due to ideological reasons.

Social Security

Criminal cases involving overseas Chinese continue to occur every year, and personal safety has naturally become one of the topics of greatest concern. However, what is cause for optimism is that nearly 94% of overseas Chinese netizens surveyed believe that the security level of their place of residence or country is safe. The vast majority of overseas Chinese are satisfied with the security of their host country.

Recently, domestic hot social news such as the "Little Yueyue" and "Peng Yu cases" have also affected the hearts of overseas Chinese. 35.4% of the overseas Chinese surveyed said that if they encountered an elderly person falling in China, they would not come to rescue him. This proportion is roughly the same as the proportion of overseas Chinese netizens who said they would "definitely save them." As for the situation where "Little Yueyue" was repeatedly run over and 18 passers-by refused to save her, the vast majority of overseas Chinese netizens have heard about it in their local countries.

>Other survey results are as follows

>The biggest gain from going abroad

Sense of superiority and satisfaction

According to the survey, the proportion of netizens who claimed to have never encountered discrimination while living overseas and who felt that the local people were friendly increased by 6.5% to 35.1%.

Only 4.2% of the overseas Chinese netizens surveyed were dissatisfied with their overseas life, a 2% decrease from last year. The proportion of those who expressed helplessness and felt unsatisfactory about their living conditions overseas also dropped by 3.4% compared to last year. It can be seen that more and more overseas Chinese are satisfied with the current situation of life overseas.