Overseas Chinese affairs are open and upgraded, and overseas Chinese enjoy the ＂welfare＂ of reform.
(40 years of reform and opening up, gathering overseas Chinese hearts) Overseas Chinese affairs are open and upgraded, and overseas Chinese enjoy the "welfare" of reform.
China news agency, Beijing, December 6 (Reporter Zhou Xinmai) In 1978, the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) opened the prelude to China’s reform and opening up. Deng Xiaoping’s assertion that "overseas relations are a good thing" has made the field of overseas Chinese affairs one of the important breakthroughs in reform and opening up.
Over the past 40 years, with the gradual advancement of reform and opening up, China’s overseas Chinese affairs work has constantly presented a new situation. The fruits of reform and opening-up have benefited all aspects of the survival and development of overseas Chinese and their relatives.
Economically, overseas Chinese businessmen continue to gain valuable opportunities. In 1983, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council pointed out in their instructions on strengthening the utilization of foreign capital that "overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Province are given special preferential treatment for investment in China"; The Interim Provisions of the State Council on Preferential Investment for Overseas Chinese promulgated in 1985 stipulates that "overseas Chinese investors can choose to invest in sole proprietorship, joint venture or cooperative operation with state-owned enterprises, joint venture or cooperative operation with collective enterprises".
Taking advantage of the policy east wind, groups of overseas Chinese businessmen came to China to invest and start businesses. As a result, many small start-ups have made great returns from scratch and from small to large.
For example, "Red Bull" was a functional drink invented by Xu Shubiao, a Thai Chinese, in 1975. It was only a niche brand in Thailand in the early days, and became famous in 1993 because it opened the China market, which laid an important foundation for its later leap to become a world brand. For another example, Zhang Yin, an American returned overseas Chinese, took the opportunity of reform and opening up to establish nine dragons paper Co., Ltd. in 1996, and now it has become the world’s largest modern packaging paper papermaking group.
Helping overseas Chinese businessmen seize the opportunity of the times, China’s overseas Chinese affairs work has never stopped. Since 2014, the State Council Overseas Chinese Affairs Office has successively established 16 overseas Chinese business clusters and overseas Chinese innovation and entrepreneurship bases-"Overseas Chinese Dream Garden" in cooperation with local governments. Provide tailor-made comprehensive services for the special needs of overseas Chinese to invest and start businesses.
In addition, national non-profit organizations such as China Overseas Chinese Merchants Investment Enterprise Association have built a bridge between overseas Chinese businessmen and government departments; Mechanism meetings such as "Hua Chuanghui", "Hua Expo" and "ASEAN Chinese Chamber of Commerce" have built a platform for docking negotiations and win-win cooperation between overseas Chinese businesses.
Legally, the protection system for the rights and interests of overseas Chinese is improving day by day. In 1991, the Law of People’s Republic of China (PRC) on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Returned Overseas Chinese and Their Families came into force; In 1993, the Measures for the Implementation of the Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Returned Overseas Chinese in People’s Republic of China (PRC) was promulgated.
In 2015, China’s first provincial local regulation on the protection of the rights and interests of overseas Chinese, Regulations on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Overseas Chinese in Guangdong Province, was promulgated. Fujian, Hubei, Shanghai, Zhejiang and other places subsequently promulgated regulations.
At present, although there is no legislation on the protection of overseas Chinese rights and interests in China, the provisions concerning the protection of overseas Chinese rights and interests have been scattered in various laws and regulations with different levels and effects. It plays a substantial role in protecting overseas Chinese in many fields, such as identity identification, returning to China to settle down, medical education, social insurance and so on.
Liu Guofu, a professor at Beijing Institute of Technology Law School, said that these beneficial explorations and accumulations will certainly promote the legislative process at the national level.
Culturally, the spiritual nourishment of overseas Chinese is becoming more and more abundant. In order to enrich the cultural life of overseas Chinese, since 2009, the large-scale "Cultural China Four Seas in the Same Spring" has performed 450 performances in 332 cities in 160 countries around the world, with more than 7 million live audiences and hundreds of millions of online and TV viewers.
In order to continue the cultural heritage of the new generation, in recent years, more than 300,000 Chinese teenagers from more than 110 countries and regions have participated in the "root-seeking tour in China", which has enhanced their sense of national identity and pride; More than 20 thousand overseas Chinese schools, with the care and help of overseas Chinese affairs departments, spread the seeds of Chinese culture all over the world; Higher overseas Chinese schools such as Jinan University and Huaqiao University frequently adopt policies to encourage overseas Chinese students to return to China for further study.
In terms of people’s livelihood, it serves all aspects of overseas Chinese and warms their hearts. The data shows that at present, 2750 overseas Chinese affairs handling windows have been set up in the administrative affairs halls of governments at all levels in China, and 43,000 overseas Chinese affairs are handled annually; 2,174 overseas Chinese workstations "Overseas Chinese Homes" have been built, covering overseas Chinese communities in China. Special groups, such as overseas Chinese intellectuals, overseas Chinese machinists, and overseas Chinese returning from overseas Chinese farms, have received various forms of care and care.
Facts have proved that the vast number of overseas Chinese and their relatives who have returned overseas Chinese are not only pioneers, participants and contributors to China’s reform and opening up, but also real beneficiaries. As an inseparable part of the Chinese nation, they share the happiness and glory brought by this great change. (End)