Datagov Opendata Platform

Overseas compatriots who return to the country to engage in economic activities such as investment, property purchase, or to handle military service, entry and exit, residence and settlement matters, need to obtain a proof of overseas Chinese status or passport plus a visa for overseas residence to assert their identity, as the basis for exercising their rights and obligations; the content of this dataset is statistical data on the issuance of proof of overseas Chinese status in recent years, categorized by type of certificate and gender.