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APPENDIX
Extracts from Liao Cheng-chih's article
On January 4, 1978 the People's Daily carried an article by Liao Cheng-chih, member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party explaining the guidelines and policies on the work concerning Overseas Chinese affairs.
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"In accordance with Chairman Mao's policy Chairman Hua called for developing the united front led by the working class and based on the worker- peasant alliance, a united front which embraces patriotic democratic parties, patriotic personages, compatriots in Taiwan, Hongkong and Macau, and our countrymen overseas.
"We should treat family members of the Overseas Chinese and returned Overseas Chinese as we treat the other people of China and permit no discrimination against them.
"We should provide facilities for Overseas Chinese, their family members in China and returned Overseas Chinese to come to China or go abroad to visit their relatives . . . for Chinese citizens to go abroad for reunion with their relatives of foreign nationality, simplify the procedures for getting permission to enter or leave China.
"We should welcome and make proper arrangements for those Overseas Chinese who wish to return to China to work for the national construction in the Motherland . . . for students who wish to return to pursue their studies, set up remedial school, and institutes of higher learning should facilitate their enrolment.
"We encourage Overseas Chinese to choose the nationality of their countries of residence on a voluntary basis and become citizens of these countries and, together with the local people, make contributions to the political and economic independence, and the prosperous growth of the culture of the countries they live in.
"Upon acquiring the nationality of their country of residence they become citizens of that country and lose their Chinese nationality automatically. We do not recognize dual nationality but we regard it as impermissible to compel Overseas Chinese to choose one nationality or another. Those who have chosen the nationality of their country of residence are still our kinfolk even though they are no longer Chinese citizens.
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"We require that Overseas Chinese abide by the law of their countries of residence and play an active role in developing the economy and culture of these countries and in promoting the friendship between the people of these countries and the people of China.
"Most Overseas Chinese are working people who are the masses forming the base of the patriotic front among the Overseas Chinese and are a force we should rely on. A small section of the Overseas Chinese have gradually risen to bourgeois status and the great majority of them are patriotic. They have also made contributions to the economic and cultural development in the countries where they live and are part of the motive force for combating imperialism, hegemonism and colonialism and winning national and economic independence in those countries. Therefore, we adopt a policy of uniting with those Overseas Chinese who belong to the bourgeoisie."
(Source Hsinhua News Bulletin)
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