"We can only resolve the problem of the old overseas Chinese houses one step at a time, and we must prevent a repeat of the same problem with new overseas Chinese houses," says Lin Huaming, raising another issue. After the mainland opened up to the outside world, over 100,000 people from Fujian and Guangdong took advantage of their links overseas to become the "new emigrants."
「舊僑房問題要一步步解決，新僑房問題則要防止它重演」，林華明指出另一個問題：大陸開放後，閩粵僑鄉藉著原有的海外關係，迄今又有十數萬人移居海外，成為「新移民」。