Southern Weekend: Focus on elite immigrant overseas tide

China is already the world's largest immigrant exporter. There are about 35 million Chinese scattered all over the world.　　Liang/Graphic Author: Shing (PhD, University of Hong Kong) The new rich and the intellectual elite have become the main force of emigration in the new century, and China has become the world's largest immigrant exporter.　　High-end groups, large numbers and trend development pose a problem that cannot be overlooked: China is undergoing a new phase of globalization.　　"In the vast Pacific Ocean, there are countless bright pearl, Belau is one of them ..." the movie "big throwing" in the 18 years ago, actor GE The classic line of immigration roadmap, now from comedy almost into reality. Want to emigrate?　　Now, you no longer need to take the train to Siberia, across the vast Russia, to Paris to wait for the summer tour, and then to the Belau, and then to the Belau as a springboard to the United States. You only need to prepare a passbook of more than 350,000 dollars, in the conference room of five-star hotel, by the enthusiastic intermediary Miss guide you, in the Pacific Ocean, the same vast Caribbean, countless scattered among the bright pearl, hard circle One of the small-Saint Kitts-nevis Federation.　　This small country, unheard of by the vast majority of Chinese, is now one of many new rich-class immigrants. The reality of the movie is just the scene of many immigration promotion.　　In many of the more high-end promotion, the United States, Australia, Canada, Singapore and Hong Kong, is the mainstream plays. Over the past decade, a growing number of mainland Chinese elites and wealthy businessmen have acquired permanent residency Rights (hereinafter referred to as PR) or nationality through skilled migration or investment channels.　　In their view, quality education, clean air, safe food, asset transfer, security, will be on the other side of the migration. Data show that since the late 70 and the early 90, the third influx of immigrants after China's reform and opening-up has become increasingly turbulent in the decade of the new century. Different from the first group of migrant smugglers of the bottom of the workers and the second set of the first opening of the "Lang", the new century, the main force of migration flows from the new rich class and intellectual elite.　　High-end groups, large numbers and trend development constitute a problem that cannot be ignored and must be confronted: is China experiencing the collective loss of the backbone of society?　　Beijing to buy a house, as immigrants?　　China is becoming the world's largest exporter of migrants, according to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Global politics and security report. At the April 2010 Beijing Auto Show, an immigrant ad played quite sensational: buying a house in Beijing?　　Why not emigrate? The unspoken subtext behind this ad is: in the two-suite purchase threshold to the highest in history, Beijing second ring within the average price per square metre still clinging to 30,000 yuan, still not recovered from the financial crisis in the United States, has begun to introduce EB-5-type visas, attract rich countries to naturalization, the minimum investment of 500,000 U.S. dollars (about RMB 3.42 million is eligible for an American green card. "Theoretically, the North within two ringsThe people of Beijing have the conditions to emigrate to the United States.　　"Shilini, Chairman of Beijing Association for private outbound agencies, said. The latest statistics from its association show that the number of Chinese applicants for EB-5 visas to invest in the United States in 2009 has doubled, rising from 500 in 2008 to more than 1000.　　China has again launched a wave of investment abroad. An immigration-American refusal in 2008 gave the public a stunning American dream and financial resources for China's rich. At that time, 147 wealthy group investment, each person wants to 500,000 U.S. dollars, raise 73.5 million dollars, intends to invest in the United States Conference Center expansion in order to deal with investment immigrants.　　The application was rejected because it involved a large number of people and violated the immigration law. This did not quench the enthusiasm of the rich people's immigration. The State Department's latest data show that the total number of EB5 visas granted in the last federal financial year of October 2008-September 2009 has risen from 1443 in fiscal year 2008 to 4218, of which about 70% are mainly from China.　　Shilini said the countries with high success rates for investment migrants were Canada, Australia and Singapore, respectively, with a threshold of 400,000 Canadian dollars (about 2.35 million RMB), 800,000 Australian dollars (about 4.54 million RMB), and 1.5 million new yuan (about 9.62 million yuan). In addition, Europe, which is the most difficult to apply, has been the focus of wealthy families for nearly two years.　　Huang, a lawyer's assistant at a Dutch immigration agency, said China's rich have become their best customers, offering free round-trip tickets and hotel accommodations each year, inviting wealthy Chinese businessmen to visit the investment project. Canadian Immigration data show: In 2009, Canada's investment in the global target number of immigrants 2055 people, the mainland China's quota accounted for about 1000.　　Calculated at the start of the investment of 400,000 Canadian dollars (about 2.35 million yuan), only 2009, even according to the "threshold" calculation, the flow of money from China to Canada at least 2.35 billion yuan, equivalent to a World Expo China Pavilion. In fact, the transfer of wealth is much higher than the rough estimates above. In 2001, when applying for immigration to Canada, Machoux handled skilled migrants, although he was the capital of a senior Guangzhou company. "Investment immigration threshold is very high, not that you have more than 3 million in your pocket to immigrate to Canada, you must also hire a certain number of local employees, each year a certain amount of sales and profit." "In the relatively small number of investment migrants, skilled migration is a larger group."　　Beijing because of the private Exit Intermediary Association president Shilini told our correspondent, in the past ten years to apply for technical immigration of countries and investment in the number of immigrants compared to about 20:1. This means that nearly 60 Chinese middle-class elites with good educational backgrounds, decent jobs and high incomes each day submit immigration applications to the Canadian Immigration Board. Not only in Canada, but in the past decade, with the liberalization of immigration policies, China's growing knowledge elites and wealth elites have been naturalized in Australia, Singapore and the United States.Today, for almost all the first-tier urban middle-class, a collective feeling is that everyone has at least one friend who is or has already emigrated. Mashu is international trade, Canada's immigration officials in Hong Kong for him to set up an hour-long English interview, the application passed smoothly.　　His resume is China's typical middle-class elite: Graduated from a prestigious school, Eve in Guangzhou as a cultural company executives, has a wealth of international cooperation experience, after the independent business. "Scores are likely to meet the basic quality of qualified personnel for Master's degree or above, proficient in English, more than 3-5 years working experience," Machoux said, "is the backbone of China." "Machoux is just one of the big" backbone "groups.　　According to Statistics, 2009, China immigrated to Canada a total of 25,000 people, immigration to the United States about 65,000 people, 2008 Immigration Australia about 16,000 people.　　In addition, the United States, Australia and the three major destinations, Hong Kong, Singapore and the emergence of small North and South America are also absorbing a large number of mainland Chinese immigrants.　　In 2007, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences released a report on global politics and security, which showed that China was the world's leading exporter of the world's largest immigrant population. Since 1978, 1.06 million Chinese students have studied abroad and only 275,000 have returned home.　　Out of 785,000 young talent, the equivalent of 30 Peking University, 30 Tsinghua University of all undergraduate students.　　What are they looking for?　　Quality education, a healthy environment, safe food, normative laws, and even a symbol of identity all have great appeal to immigrants. GE, Xu Fan, starring throwing in 1992, Machoux has graduated from university for three years.　　This immigrant film reflects the immigration boom of the early 90, when it was important to move on. Machoux was not caught up in the immigrant mania. Due to the work of the relationship, Machoux often travel abroad, familiar with the large number of people who smuggled out of the country since 1978, the ability to earn a living abroad is still selling coolie, this group of people at the bottom of the society still accounted for the vast majority of all Chinese overseas. In the early 1990 's, the same age rushed out, also far from the light of life.　　A friend who settled in Europe, an engineering doctor, was a shopkeeper and a clerk in a grocery store, and the most complicated mental work of the day was to calculate how many pounds a pair of flip-flops and two cans of cappuccino amounted to.　　Formal, silent, no religious beliefs, fear of words, do not participate in public affairs, these bones lingering collective temperament deepened the yellow, white two world diaphragm. Machoux's ideal is to become a company executive rather than go abroad as a supermarket clerk. After years of work, Machoux Independent, the smooth business suddenly defeated in a muddled lawsuit.　　2001, Machoux handled a skilled migration to Canada. Seeking security and seeking quality education for their children is the top two reasons why all respondents migrate. One of the respondents was a hundreds of millions of of Wenzhou businessmen, and the first meeting with this newspaper reporterOccasion, unexpectedly is in his middle school schoolmate's home.　　Despite years of business in the Middle East, he has not yet gone away from the familiar social style of warm business. In 2009, he began to transfer business from the Middle East to the United States, investing in immigrants by investing in a Sino-American trade city.　　He admitted that more and more do not like four days a week to go out to socialize, to manage the officials, friends, longing for "public and private life, more time for wives and children." In his circle, immigration even became the identity of the rank.　　They call it "shortcuts", that is, with the wealth that has been accumulating rapidly over the past 20 years, paying or ignoring the costs of China's transition: Normative laws, child education, high welfare, low tax points, low inheritance taxes, healthy air, safe food, and the convenience of visa-free passports. Many of his contemporaries, in the 780 's, had smuggled into Europe with their parents and friends, and some had joined the French foederati for naturalization, "Now it's my turn to go out," he said, "but unlike their group of immigrants, we have more options." "Another, low-key immigrant group cannot be easily approached," he said. Public data show that Canada's Toronto and Quebec are the preferred destinations for Chinese-rich immigrants. In Australia, the preferred place for Chinese billionaires is Sydney and Melbourne. Canada and Australia have made clear the importance of attracting Chinese billionaires as an important consideration for immigration policy.　　For these new rich classes, the safety of property is their greatest demand. Singapore has also become an ideal place for domestic millionaires in the past few years. Singapore's abolition of the estate tax in 2008 has made the country more attractive to its domestic rich. Unlike Canada, Singapore has no residency restrictions on immigrants, so many of the Chinese billionaires who get green cards in Singapore are still able to continue to run their businesses domestically, which is also a big attraction for business-surviving entrepreneurs.　　Many domestic billionaires buy apartments at Singapore's Orchard Road (the business center) or buy a villa from Sentosa to form a new life circle. This group in the skilled migration impression, closed and glamorous, is completely two world of people, they never participate in any Chinese community activities, all live in the local high-end community, and some even changed their names. An immigrant lawyer said in an interview that he had been asked by a Chinese department to cooperate with an investigation of one of his clients, allegedly after the departure of the alleged misappropriation of billions of public funds, the lawyer refused: "To protect the privacy of clients is a lawyer's obligations." "For the future of their children, most of them need to fade to the halo of" successful people "in the country and return to plain life.　　But they are more focused on the future of their children. In the world of skilled immigrants, they first have to adapt to the gap between the hardships of making a living and the social status.　　Countries in the formulation of technical immigration policies, the country's shortage of talent type as a priority, such as Australia, Canada favored it engineers and accountants. But since the major companies in the two countries only recognise their own and North American work histories, most of the ChineseNone of the immigrants were employed in their previous occupations. When I first arrived in Canada, the bottom line of Machoux's job was to be a manager.　　In the context of his domestic corporate executives, "in any case not too much".　　When you see a friend who works as an IT engineer in the country, the first job he finds in Canada is a restaurant waiter, and after three days of being sacked for clumsy performance, Machoux "Heart is cold." Three months later, he finally managed to find a job in a telecommunications company to sell international long-distance calls.　　The 40-year-old novice, every day to compete with young youth performance, each pull a customer, reward 2 Canadian dollars, if enough diligent, one months to get 800 Canadian dollars (equivalent to 5191.28 yuan). No one knows that he has managed tens of millions of assets in the company, and no one cares. Each interview, the interviewer's attitude is polite and resolute, "although your job in China is very attractive, but sorry, this does not count." "Highly educated, with more than five years of work experience in the country, good upbringing, decent status and considerable income, this is the common character of Chinese technical immigrants."　　Compared with the 20-somethings who went to the United States to read Master, PHD and left the United States after graduation, they migrated at a 30~40岁 age, with less choice and more competition. Machoux around the immigrant compatriots, some former university teachers, and some former company director, some technical backbone, in Canada, they become truck drivers, supermarket container, cashier, a friend, in a company to do the technology, performance is quite recognized, but 10 years without a promotion, another friend, at the age of 40, returned to college,　　I'm reading freshman now. Unlike the general public's imagination, a large number of skilled migrants in foreign life, although stable but far less glamorous than the domestic. In the distant foreign country, most of them need to fade in the domestic "successful person" aura, return to ordinary to plain life. But they are more focused on the future of their children, and they generally want the next generation to continue their domestic success in a foreign country. "Sacrifice me one, happy Up-and."　　"A skilled immigrant who has emigrated to Canada for nearly 10 years has concluded. Not every Chinese technology immigrant is over it.　　2005, the Canadian Immigration Circle sensation of the two events, one of the former science scholar in Hubei province after reading postdoctoral, only in a factory to find a manual worker, jumped to suicide; another Chinese doctor, after being dismissed by the company, jumped the bridge and died. Machoux thinks, this is to let Chinese education to harm, "the sense of inferiority and nobleness is too deep," the values of life and equality have penetrated into the bones of Westerners ", in the Machoux impression, in the restaurant to the waiter yelled at the basic are all Chinese," Canadians very surprised, why do this? " "Despite the difficulties of making a living, Chinese citizens who have applied for immigration have been increasing in spite of the tightening of technology immigration policies in Australia and Canada in the two years." U.S. immigration data show that in 2008, a total of 40,000 people in mainland China to join the United States, the total number of immigrants in other countries around 40,000; in Singapore, the total number of Chinese populationCountry's population of 75%.　　Machoux has so far kept a newspaper in the early 2001 to Canada, where the Canadian governor (the equivalent of the Chinese Public Security minister), more than 15000 Canadian dollars (about 100,000 yuan) to decorate the office, was exposed by the media, apologized, had to resign. Although once engaged in blue-collar work, Machoux and friends have never felt the dignity of the damage, the housing price is reasonable, the residents of Toronto once protested the local property market by the influx of Chinese rich people to fry, New College friends, enjoy the Canadian government education subsidy, monthly 2000 Canadian dollars enough to pay tuition and a three of the living expenses. "Do you understand now that I don't regret immigration?"　　"he said.　　China can't get around?　　He hopes that one day in the future, he will still be a Chinese. In an increasing number of skilled migrant families, at least one member of the family maintains Chinese citizenship in order to give themselves a job opportunity.　　This phenomenon is similar to the upsurge of immigrants in Hong Kong in the middle of the 80, and the phenomenon of keeping the male masters in Hong Kong as "space Family", the wife taking care of the children abroad, and the gentlemen continuing to work and do business in Hong Kong.　　At that time, Hong Kong, on the one hand, many people in the eyes of the political future is not clear, along with the rapid economic take-off, providing a large number of job opportunities and profit space, these are the society has been a steady development for decades, the areas of mature and perfect Western countries lack.　　Machoux began to start the old line, doing international trade, the initial start of the business or related to China, will be domestic heavy machinery sold overseas.　　Machoux admits that China is a haven for businesses that want to make money. Li Chao, general manager of Pumme Art Company, emigrated to Canada in 2008 and still lives in Beijing after acquiring permanent residency.　　The 28-Year-old young man who studied in France for five years always habitually took off his Armani suit, hung it in the back seat of his car, and buckled his seat belt before starting the car. Immigration is his "long-term layout strategy", he firmly believes that with international partners, their own European atmosphere and Canadian identity can close the distance between the two sides and negotiating weights.　　And the idea has been recognized by more and more businessmen working to develop into multinational companies. In his knowledge of investment immigrants, the abandonment of Chinese nationality is a very strange thing, "either the whole body and out of the country for retirement, or to marry, the husband to teach the son to go."　　Most just need to get PR, the difference between the two is only political rights, but can guarantee themselves as a Chinese citizen in the domestic unimpeded business. "To get PR is to make yourself freer," Li Chao said, "for a highly internationalized individual.　　"The number of visa-free countries in Canada, Australia, the United States, Singapore and Hong Kong SAR is 125, 120, 130, 122 and 110, compared with the 13 visa-free country for Chinese passports." The tower, the 2007 investment immigrant Singapore, the wife and children have moved to the Lion City, their own in Shanghai followingContinue business. "In Singapore, business has a 15% profit, it has been very encouraging, can be taken back to China?" It's too general.　　"That's the benefit of China," he said. In the business logic of these investment immigrants, personal identity and the identity of China has been stripped away, the motherland is not only a highly cultural identity and dependence of the political concept, but also a dairy cattle ranch, they like to drink milk, does not mean to be happy with the cows over a lifetime, but to squeeze out the milk, and, at the same time, Dairy farms also benefited.　　What's wrong with that? Sundofi, American student, green card holder, returned home in 2007 with her sister to create a luxury shopping station on the five avenue, lower than the price of domestic franchised stores to make the business quickly booming up.　　In 2008, Sundofi the Harvard graduate husband Wang Zheng also called back. In Boston, Wang Zheng is a company's construction engineer, the small boss is also a Chinese, more than 50-year-old only climbed into the partner's position, he felt himself so stay, "close your eyes can think of their 40-year-old, 50-year-old, 60-year-old appearance." "After returning home, in a rapidly rising construction industry, Wang Zheng soon became the vice-president of a 2000-person company with a yearly salary of twice times the size of Boston. "When you go back to China, you feel like your whole life is going to be tough," Sundofi said, "the speed of the 100-year walk in 30."　　"The Chinese nationality law, which still has a single international system, is becoming an obstacle to international life for the Wang Zheng who have obtained the nationality of the United States and other countries." The State Council Office Expert Advisory Committee Qianjiang told our correspondent, China does not recognize dual nationality, is in the 1950 's Bandung Conference by Premier Zhou Enlai to Southeast Asian countries promised to avoid the embarrassment and danger of the double political allegiance of the Chinese overseas people in Southeast Asia. In recent years, many business, cultural festival, the high level of the intelligentsia through the channel to meet with the central government to implement dual nationality, the issue has been discussed several times, but soon rejected, "in the identity card problem, household registration issues, freedom of movement issues, such as a series of identity lines unresolved, recognition of dual nationality, will still bring new　　Even greater unfairness. " A scholar who has emigrated to Australia believes that China's dual nationality, is the international trend, currently more than half of the world recognized or default dual nationality, Korea, India and other countries in the transition period, the loss of a large number of talented people have begun to default dual nationality, to attract elite back to the nest, standing in the global talent flow, cooperation,　　What difficulties can not be overcome?　　After two years of entanglement, Machoux finally decided to join the Canadian nationality, often in the international flight he needs a more practical sense of security, as a citizen of Canada can enjoy the great importance and perfect foreign affairs protection, on the other hand, every time back to China, he had to go to the Chinese Consulate line, as a foreigner to apply for a visa.　　He hopes that one day in the future, he will still be a Chinese. (In the text, Machoux, the tower of the Emperor as a pseudonym)