With the population of Singapore at 2.6 million, of which seventy percent are Chinese, and with approximately seven million Chinese in Malaysia, one-third of the total population, these people can have a large impact on the development of Chinese literature abroad.
新加坡二百六十萬人口中，百分之七十是華人；馬來西亞約有七百萬華人，也佔了全國總人口的三分之一。這樣的人口組成，在海外華文文學發展上，可以說擁有最雄厚的「本錢」。