Qiu Chui-zheng: last year’s application for settlement in Taiwan Hong Kong people surged by 84% year-on-year.
The number of Hong Kong people applying for residence in Taiwan broke 10,000, in Taiwan, the Land Commission Qiu Chuizheng said Thursday, under the Epidemic control still so many Hong Kong people come to Taiwan to stay, and the situation in Hong Kong and changes related, he said Taiwan will continue to pay close attention. (Wen Haixin Taipei report)
The latest figures from the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department show that the net migration from Hong Kong reached a new record high of 39,800 people last year. But a spokesman at the Time stressed that net migration covers the movement of Hong Kong residents in and out of Hong Kong for various purposes, such as work and study, and is not conceptually the same as immigration.
Since the anti-sending demonstrations, there has been an upward trend in the number of people in Hong Kong intending to migrate. In addition to the United Kingdom and other places, the number of Hong Kong residents moving to Taiwan has also increased dramatically.
In Taiwan, Deputy Director of the Mainland Affairs Council Qiu Chui-cheng pointed out on Thursday (18) that the number of Hong Kong people applying for residence in Taiwan last year totaled 18,813, a significant increase of 84.6 percent compared to 5,858 the year before. He believes that under the epidemic control, there are still so many Hong Kong people coming to stay in Taiwan, and the situation and changes in Hong Kong, he said Taiwan will continue to pay close attention.
In terms of settlement figures, there were 1,576 people last year alone, an increase of 6.9 percent over the previous year. Information can be seen, settlement and residence figures also hit a new high since 2016.
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