Since the 1997 handover of the territory to China, such new immigrants have grown rapidly in number, and are currently estimated at over half a million people. Coupled with the 10 million mainland tourists pounding the pavement in Hong Kong each year, this phenomenon has led to Hong Kongers having to try and erase the memory of A-Tsan and find a way to live in harmony with their mainland brethren.
97 回歸後，來港的內地新移民數量大增，估計已超過 50 萬人；加上每年上千萬名的大陸觀光客在港島招搖過市，港人正努力修正心中的阿燦形象，學著與他們和平共處。