Xu zhongjing, principal of Jimei supplementary School for Overseas Chinese Students, observes that after the Cultural Revolution ended overseas Chinese were no longer vilified, yet it was hard to repair the damage already done. "If the overseas Chinese students couldn't come, then we couldn't keep going."
集美華僑學生補習學校校長許仲經指出，文革結束後，「僑」的身分雖然獲得平反，但要彌補以前的一大段空白究竟困難：「僑生進不來，我們也辦不起。」