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Chinese mainland emigrants to US younger, more women

According to report by US World Journal, emigrants from across the Straits to the United States over the past 20 years are changing.


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According to report by US World Journal, emigrants from across the Straits to the United States over the past 20 years are changing. The number of emigrants from China's mainland to the United States hiked in the 1990s, surpassing those of Taiwan and Hong Kong to be the top in the three areas. Emigrants from the Chinese mainland are also the group of Chinese with the strongest self-identification in the United States.

Studies show that after 1995, the migration of Taiwanese to the United States ebbed and that of Hong Kong also turned down dramatically after 1997.

There were also some changes in the proportions of male and female emigrants from China's mainland. In 1970 the ratio of male to female was 114:100 which reversed ten years later. In 2000, the ratio changed to 84:100 while that of newborn boys to girls in the United States is 113:110.

Migration from China's mainland represents the characteristics of the new migrant population in terms of age. The number of migrants in the age group of 15-44 sees the fastest increase, 98,729 in the ten years before 2000. The number of migrants younger than 15 increased 79,395. The total of the two takes up 45 percent of the total increase of people of all ages. The age of migrants is decreasing on average. Additionally, 94 percent of the emigrants from China's mainland went to the United States in the past 20 years and not many of them turn hybrid. There were only over 30,000 hybrid in 2000, accounting for 5.3 percent of the total.

Among the emigrants from China's mainland, 28.6 percent, the largest group, go to the state of California then comes New York with 19.9 percent, Texas 4.9 percent and Massachusetts 4.5 percent. Moreover, among the emigrants from China's mainland, specialized technicians and management take up 47.5 percent of the employed, a proportion lower than that of Taiwan and Hong Kong.

By People's Daily Online


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