The Chinese government has begun distinguishing between those who are ethnic Chinese of foreign nationality and those who actually maintain Chinese citizenship. "To our understanding, some 90 percent of Chinese abroad are just ethnic Chinese," Liang Zhaocheng points our. "Only a small number are Chinese citizens."
在稱呼上，中共也把已入僑居國籍的僑胞稱為「華人」，仍保留國籍的才稱「華僑」，「目前的海外僑胞中，屬於外國籍，即所謂華人的，佔了九十％，仍保留華僑身分的，只佔小部分」，梁兆澄指出。