At the time, "returning to the troubled homeland 'to build a new socialist China' had a magic appeal to young overseas Chinese full of patriotic fervor, especially those of Southeast Asia who had likewise suffered under the Japanese," says Wang Bi-yue, an overseas Chinese from Singapore who returned in the fifties and is now a member of the Returned Overseas Chinese Federation of Xiamen.
「回歸多災多難的祖國，『建設社會主義的新中國』，當時對滿腔熱血、特別是同樣遭受日本蹂躪的東南亞華僑子弟而言，有著不可抗拒的號召魔力」，一九五○年代自新加坡返國的廈門市歸國華僑聯誼會會員汪璧月指出。