Immigration Report says China has the third highest number of immigrants in the world in 2019

U.S.-China relations have continued to deteriorate in recent years, but the desire of Chinese people to immigrate to the United States has not abated. According to the China International Migration Report 2020, about 10.73 million people migrated from mainland China in 2019, ranking No. 3 in the world in terms of the number of migrants abroad, with the United States (2.8892 million), Japan (784,800) and Canada (691,500) as the main destinations.

The Beijing-based Social Science Literature Press published on Tuesday (22) the blue book “China International Migration Report 2020”, prepared by China’s “Globalization Think Tank (CCG)” and the Development Research Institute of Southwest University of Finance and Economics. According to the report, the top three countries in the world with the most people migrating are India, Mexico and China in that order.

According to the report, “education” is the top reason for Chinese people to migrate, and the boom of Chinese students studying abroad continues, with the number of Chinese students studying in high schools in the U.S. surging nearly 100 times in the past 10 years, and the trend of studying at a younger age is significant.

The report cites the 2019 U.S. Open Doors Report, which shows that there were 369,000 Chinese students in the U.S. in the 2018-2019 academic year, accounting for 33.7 percent of all international students in the U.S. The 2019 U.K. International Student Report shows that there were 106,000 Chinese students in the U.K., accounting for 23.2 percent of all international students in the U.K., reflecting the fact that China remains the largest international student source for both the U.S. and the U.K. source country.

The report shows that as China’s National Tax Administration promotes the automatic exchange of tax-related information on financial accounts (CRS), high-asset immigrants will choose their immigration destinations more carefully in light of tax issues, so the number of Chinese “investment immigrants” in the U.S. is rapidly declining, and immigration through “immediate family members” has become the main route, with “family immigration” becoming more common.