More than 9 million Chinese had emigrated till 2013, making China the fourth-largest migrant-exporting country in the world.
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The United States topped the destination countries for Chinese migrants. In 2012, 81,784 people from the Chinese mainland were granted permanent resident visas for the US, accounting for 7.9 percent of the country's total. According to data published by US Citizenship and Immigration Services, Chinese also received more than three-fourths of the total visas the US issued to investment immigrants in 2013.
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Chinese who studied in the US or received H-1B visas to work in the US increased an average of 20 percentage points each year. China has been the biggest provider of that country's foreign students since 2011. In 2013, there were 235,597 Chinese students in the US, accounting for 28.7 percent of all international students. Chinese who were granted H-1B visas to the US increased by 19.8 percentage points to 23,787 in 2012.
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China is second only to Mexico in the number of migrants it provides to the US, and is the biggest national provider of migrants to Canada.
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Chinese migrants to Australia have also been on the rise for 10 years. About 60 percent of foreigners who receive permanent resident visas to the country are Chinese. Data from Australia's population census in 2011 shows Chinese will soon comprise the biggest migrant nationality, surpassing the British. British currently account for 3.5 percent of the population in Sydney, while Chinese make up 3.4 percent.
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Chinese accounted for 15.4 percent of the total skilled migrants to Australia from 2008 to 2012, with a total of 516,729. The country also issued 12.7 percent of its tourism visas to foreigners to Chinese.
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As Chinese migration keeps increasing, China's sixth nationwide census also showed 593,832 foreigners are living in China.
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