These roughly 100,000 Chinese refugees from Vietnam are for the most part farmers or miners from the mountainous zone of north Vietnam. And the Chinese Communists are accustomed to say "their cultural standards are quite low." Furthermore, because some had settled in Vietnam for four or five generations, the children know only how to speak Vietnamese and a smattering of provincial patois, which adds to the difficulties of communication.
這批為數約十來萬的越南難僑，多是越北山區的農民或礦工，照中共的習慣說法，是「文化水平低下」；加上有的已經在當地落戶四、五代，孩子們只會講越南話和一點家鄉方言，更增加溝通上的困難。