It was not until 1982, after the Jimei School of Chinese Language and Culture was set up, that Jimei once again began inviting applications from students overseas, to let second-generation ethnic Chinese who have lost contact with their ancestral homeland to get to know it again through language and culture.
一九八二年，集美中國語言文化學校成立後，才重新向海外招生，希望那些和故國隔絕已久的海外第二代，能先從語言文化入手。