Chapter 498: The inside story is unknown to others
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\*.\Look-Shuge*(千&zai Chinese - Provide the latest chapters to read> one of the largest and most economically successful groups of Chinese overseas is the Southeast Asian Chinese.
Indonesia has a population of 200 million, about 10 million Chinese, Malaysia 25 million, about 6 million Chinese, Thailand 65 million, about 9 million Chinese, Singapore more than 3 million, 90 percent Chinese, 90 million Filipinos, about 1 million, but about 20 percent have Chinese ancestry.
For example, 70% of small and medium-sized enterprises in Malaysia are owned by Chinese, including manufacturing, construction and service industries.
Since the Bandung Conference, Zhou Enlai canceled China's dual nationality policy, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and other places of the Chinese began to actively integrate into their own society, especially Thailand and the Philippines, there are very few Chinese in the traditional sense, from the name and language, Chinese can no longer tell who is Chinese, however, the local people have Chinese blood in that family, are clear.
People know that Fibin Arroyo's husband is of Chinese descent, and Thaksin Shinawatra in Thailand is Chinese, and perhaps few people know that two-thirds of the members of the Thai parliament are also of Chinese descent.
But these Chinese, like some ethnic minorities in China, are only Chinese by blood.
In Southeast Asia, the only countries that can really maintain the Chinese tradition on the scale of an ethnic group are Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.
Some people have divided the Chinese in these three places into two kinds, the traditional Chinese and the strait Chinese, as it was generally said before, Chinese, when talking about China, they are so cordial that they call themselves Chinese, represented by the patriotic Hua Chen Kah Kee.
After generally speaking English, watching the Straits Times in English, the West is even ashamed of its own Chinese face, represented by Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew.
The degree of psychological change of the Nanyang Chinese in the past half century is the history of the changes of these two types of Chinese.
In a sense, the achievements of overseas Chinese far surpass all Hong Kong elites in Hong Kong, including Li Ka-shing.
Hong Kong's prosperity in the past half century has mostly relied on agency fees and trade fees earned by serving as China's window to the outside world, and most of Hong Kong's rich people have relied on Hong Kong's real estate wealth, and as a result, except for creating a few rich people, the vast majority of Hong Kong people have no benefit, but their lives have become stressful, and they can only live in houses with pigeon cages as house slaves.
Ironically, nearly half of Hong Kong's employment is now provided by Chinese-funded companies from the mainland.
Objectively speaking, Hong Kong already has some competitiveness, but the majority of Hong Kong people do not see this and are very ignorant and indignant about the very illusory so-called voting rights.
Li Ka-shing should be considered a traditional Chinese, but Li Zekai, who studied in the United States since childhood, can be regarded as a Straits Chinese.
Before the founding of the People's Republic of China. Straits Hua has little influence among the Chinese in Southeast Asia, and the vast majority of Chinese follow Tan Kah Kee.
In 1938, the Dinan General Association was established. The venue is in Singapore. Tan Kah Kee was elected chairman. The congress recounted all kinds of crimes committed by the Japanese invaders against China in modern times.
It was revealed that the Japanese invaders were not only trying to annex China. Also delusional to conquer the world. At present, the Chinese nation has reached a critical juncture of life and death.
Call on the eight million overseas Chinese in Nanyang to unite sincerely. Swear to support the government of the motherland. Contribute money and effort. Send more remittances to support the war effort.
The War of Resistance will be won. The nation's founding will be successful. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Finance of the Nanjing Government. China's eight years of anti-China donations totaled more than 1.3 billion yuan.
The average is more than 160 million yuan per year. Among them, Nanyanghua has the largest proportion of donations. Another item of financial support for the anti-Japanese war was remittances.
It is the remittance sent by overseas Chinese back to the motherland to support their relatives. The amount is larger than the donation. From 1937 to 1943 only, remittances were made through banks.
According to statistics, the total amount is as much as 5.5 billion yuan. On average, it is about $800 million per year. After 1942. All parts of the South Seas fell one after another.
Remittance and donations were interrupted. Overseas Chinese also made considerable contributions to the motherland's War of Resistance in terms of material resources. Incomplete statistics as of 1940.
A total of 217 aircraft were donated. Twenty-seven tanks. A thousand ambulances. As well as a large number of medicines, raincoats, rubber shoes and other supplies.
Later stage of the Anti-Japanese War. The sea route was blocked. A large number of overseas strategic materials in support of the motherland's anti-Japanese war can only be transported by road from Burma.
Then. There is a shortage of domestic mechanics and automobiles. Transportation is difficult. Tan Kah Kee was commissioned by the domestic Southwest Transportation Company.
Through the Nanqiao Association, more than 3,200 experienced, skilled and courageous mechanics were recruited from Singapore and Malaysia.
And donated more than 300 cars. These overseas Chinese mechanics. Full of patriotic fervor. Say goodbye to Nanyang relatives and friends.
Return to the great southwest of the motherland. On an unusually rugged and difficult thousand-mile transportation line. Overcome unimaginable difficulties.
Deliver a variety of strategic materials that are urgently needed in the country. An average of more than 300 tons per day. The cumulative volume of transportation over time is considerable.
Many Nanyang Chinese also returned to China to participate in the War of Resistance Against Japan. The most famous of them. It was Republic Admiral Ye Fei.
He was originally an overseas Chinese in the Philippines. After the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression to 1949, the traditional Chinese in Nanyang went through a very painful period, because most of them did not understand the struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party~ For them, as long as they recognize China, partisan disputes are very strange things to them, because they know the most, in addition to the general righteousness of the Chinese nation, that is, business, they generally do not know anything about politics.
At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the traditional Chinese in Nanyang were still very confused, but the ensuing Korean War made them very excited.
In just five years, China has changed from a weak country casually bullied by small Japan to a big country in the East that can defeat the number one power, the United States, and the appeal of New China is also growing among the Chinese in Southeast Asia.
In August 1965, Singapore was founded. At that time, the national flag proposal was discussed, and some people proposed that the national flag must be the same as China, with five stars and red, and this proposal was unanimously agreed by the traditional Chinese, so there is the Singapore flag that we see now.
After the Chinese exclusion incident in Indonesia in 98 years, many Chinese people moved their capital out, and the funds moved out in the second half of the year alone amounted to about 80 billion US dollars.
Although the funds were removed, many people's careers are still in Indonesia, so many people choose to settle in Singapore, and individuals still fly back to Indonesia every week to do some business.
However, Lee Kuan Yew has made a big claim that he wants Singapore to become a safe haven for Indonesian Chinese.
But for the Indonesian Chinese who came to settle down in Xin'an, his offer was S$1 million in cash, about US$700,000 a green card, regardless of age.
It is worth noting that this money is not an investment, but a ticket. In fact, the problem that Indonesian Chinese are facing is their nationality.
For example, Indonesian badminton queen Wang Lianxiang won the women's singles gold medal at the Olympics in 1992, but the award was problematic at that time, because she did not have Indonesian nationality at that time.
According to the dual nationality abolished by Zhou Enlai in 1954 and Taipei has always retained dual nationality, Wang Lianxiang at that time, strictly speaking, may be regarded as Chinese, and the gold medal should be counted in the name of Chinese Taipei.
Fan Wuxian is not clear about these things, after listening to Boss Zhu tell him in detail about the ins and outs, he has some understanding, it seems that the government is indeed a little embarrassed on this issue.
At that time, the abolition of the heavy nationality also had its historical reasons, but it cannot be said that it was without foresight. However, Boss Zhu also explained a little to Fan Wuxi,
"Although Singapore is robbing the Chinese Chinese, the fees charged are too high, and it is obviously a selective import for the rich, and the value is also the money of these Indonesian Chinese. Of course, we can't be so unkind, so this threshold must not be set. ”
"It's good not to set thresholds, but when there is a large-scale wave of immigration, it will be difficult for the country to cope." Fan Wuxian thought to himself that there are more than 10 million Chinese in Indonesia, what kind of concept is it if they all come over?
It's scary to think about. However, looking back, although the Chinese businessmen were ostracized in Indonesia, the Indonesians mainly targeted these rich Chinese businessmen, and as for those ordinary Chinese who have been assimilated to the same extent, there is nothing to earn, so naturally there is no big problem.
Now at this time, those who want to emigrate,; Those who want to leave Indonesia are just these rich Chinese in Indonesia.
So Fan Wuxian said,
"That's fine, no thresholds are set, but there's a question of preference."
"What preference question?" Boss Zhu asked a little puzzled. Fan Wuxian replied,
"The impact of this riot is relatively large, and the physical and mental trauma is more serious, which is the focus of our rescue, and we should assist the local Chinese to unite and protect themselves, and promote the unity and cooperation of the Chinese community, which is the focus. As for those who are willing to immigrate, there should always be a small threshold, at least the air ticket money can always be affordable, right? Boss Zhu waved his hand and said,
"Anyway, it's your plane, you can do it yourself!" When he said this, he actually expressed his full trust in Fan Wuxi, and was willing to arrange it by Fan Wuxi, in fact, he didn't believe that Fan Wuxian would mess around on this issue, after all, Fan Wuxian also has a father who is a member of the Politburo, and all aspects of his feelings must be taken into account.
Obviously, the rescue cannot be unlimited, otherwise it will cause a backlash in Indonesia, and then it will only make the situation more serious and more difficult to control, so Fan Wuxi feels that the key work is to solve the anti-Chinese riots in Indonesia as soon as possible, and the second is to ensure that the door to China is open, so that Indonesian Chinese businessmen can easily take refuge in the mainland.
Only the rich will feel that immigration is necessary, and those poor, although they do not have much property in Indonesia, are always reluctant to leave and leave.
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