To come to think of it, overseas Chinese have long had "their hearts with the homeland, desiring to give something back to the land of their ancestors." They were the "mother of the Chinese revolution" and China's "backyard in the war of resistance against the Japanese." For the last century, the nation's fate has been bound up closely with its sons and daughters abroad.
說起來，「心向祖國、報效國家」向來是海外有志之士的信念，從「革命之母」到「抗日戰爭的大後院」，近百年來，中國的命運一直與華僑息息相關。