After the first wave of returnees during the 1950s, when over 300,000 young overseas Chinese returned to the motherland, during the sixties and seventies, two batches of Chinese residents abroad returned to the China mainland.
繼一九五○年代，為數達二十多萬的華僑青年回歸「祖國」後，六○及七○年代，又分別有兩次僑民大批返回中國大陸。