There is an old Chinese saying that "when a tree dies, a person lives", people have to leave their homeland and leave their homeland for a variety of reasons. As the world's largest migrant, the United States gathers immigrants from all over the world, and it is unimaginable that China is one of the main immigration countries in the United States. So how many Chinese Americans are there in the United States at the moment?And what attracted them to the United States?
According to the 2020 census data of the U.S. Federal Population Administration, the Chinese American population in the United States is 5.79 million, which is equivalent to a small and medium-sized city in China, including Chinese Americans who have obtained U.S. citizenship certification, as well as non-U.S. citizens who are currently working and studying in the United States.
At present, a large number of Chinese Americans have been reproduced in the United States for several generations, and many of them have achieved class leaps through the efforts of several generations, and most of these people came to the United States in the late Qing Dynasty.
At that time, China had to open its doors under the fire of foreign powers, and for hundreds of years before that, there was almost no movement of people to the outside world.
In that era, a group of advanced Chinese advocated opening their eyes to the world, and under their promotion, batch after batch of international students went to the United States to study, which was the starting point of Chinese immigration to the United States.
Under the bright lights of the United States, these students who studied abroad found that their "gentleman's style" seemed to be out of place, and it didn't take long for them to indulge in the prosperity of foreign countries one after another, and some of them chose to return to their hometowns because of their hearts for the motherland, but some people have stayed in the United States since then.
Legends about the United States have spread all over the streets of China, and many people have expectations for that distant America, especially the people living in the coastal areas. The legends about the United States gave them hope for life and boarded the ferry to the United States, where most of the early Chinese Americans left China.
Since the Opium Wars, China has ushered in a period of unprecedented turmoil, and at the same time, the United States has grown at an increasing pace. In this context, going to the United States has become the choice of more and more Chinese people, and the number of Chinese who went to the United States at the beginning was only a small group of about 300 people, and after 10 years, it grew to tens of thousands.
In modern society, most Chinese people choose to go to the United States because of education, and more and more Chinese families choose to send their children to the United States to study in order to obtain a higher quality education. In the data released by the World University Rankings 2023, the United States has 41 of the world's top 100 universities, while the situation in China is not so optimistic.
Most Chinese families spend the majority of their total spending on education, and many parents have enrolled their children in various interest classes since kindergarten, for fear that their children will lose at the so-called starting line. But even so, under the current tight educational resources, there are still a few students who can really be admitted to the ideal university.
According to incomplete statistics, in 2022, there will be more than 1.5 million Chinese students studying in the United States.
Secondly, there are many jobs in the job market in the United States, there is a large demand for talents, and the entire social security system is more complete, and the benefits are perfect, especially in terms of working hours, many companies clearly stipulate that the working hours per week do not exceed 40 hours, including the time for eating and drinking water and toilets, and some private companies in China are far inferior to this aspect.
Finally, there is a large number of international students who go to the United States to improve their competitiveness, according to the statistics released by an app, the current interviewer prefers those students who have studied abroad.
Immigration is a normal phenomenon in modern society, can be viewed with an inclusive attitude, the United States, as a large country of immigrants, due to the high level of economic development, perfect social welfare, advanced education model, has long attracted talents from all over the world, this is an indisputable fact, worthy of other countries to learn from Xi.
According to relevant statistics, the average tuition fee of American universities exceeds 30,000 US dollars, and the cost of living is far higher than that of China, not to mention the various emotional problems brought about by being far away from home.
However, in recent years, with the rapid development of China's economy and society and the continuous rise of its international image, many overseas people choose to return to their motherland, and even a large number of immigrants choose to settle in China.
Therefore, at present, the number of Chinese Americans is decreasing year by year, while the number of immigrants in China is increasing, including a large number of American immigrants, and it is believed that this trend will become more and more stable in the near future.