After the Cultural Revolution, there was a huge "reversal of verdicts" of past cases. Deciding what to do with the overseas Chinese houses that had been improperly confiscated was one of the thorniest problems faced by the authorities in Fujian and Guangdong.
文革落幕後，堆積如山的各種「冤假錯案」都待平反，而退還當年「不應沒收卻被沒收」的僑房，就成為閩粵兩省最特殊的棘手問題。