This is why the populations of Singapore and Malaysia are one-quarter and one-third Chinese, respectively. The Chinese dialects of Cantonese, Hokkien and Hakkanese also spread round the world and were spoken wherever contract laborers settled.
多數華工在約滿後大都留在當地勤奮開墾，加入華僑行列。因此現在新加坡與馬來西亞的華人比例高達四分之一與三分之一；廣東話、台山話與客家話也隨契約華工足跡傳遍五大洲。