Australia is the preferred city for many Chinese immigrants. The following population and distribution description will help you choose a better immigrant city.
According to Australia's 2006 census, there are about six hundred and seventy thousand overseas Chinese in Australia, accounting for 3.41 percent of the local resident population. Compared with the 2001 census, the average annual growth rate of overseas Chinese and Chinese is about 4.07%, 3.52 times the annual growth rate of Australia's total population. About 73.2% of China's mainland births in Australia become Australia's citizen.
In Australia, 55 percent of China's mainland-born population over the age of 15 has high school and above education, a higher proportion of the population. In Australia, 42 percent of Chinese mainland-born people have a specialist diploma or more, while 25 percent have a bachelor's academic degree, 4.8 percent have a high school certificate.
Chinese Australians speak the most Cantonese, slightly fewer Mandarin and a small number of dialects. The number of people who speak Chinese well or very well accounts for about 75.38%. There are about 111 overseas Chinese associations in Australia. In addition, the cultural and educational development of overseas Chinese in Australia is better, at present there are more than 90 Chinese schools.
Australian overseas Chinese are engaged in a wide range of industries, including trade, catering, real estate, manufacturing, hotels, pharmaceuticals, finance and insurance, news culture, food, textile and apparel, electronic information, chemistry, transportation, cable television, etc. The industries in which it operates include trade groceries, catering, real estate and tourist hotels. The vast majority are small and medium-sized enterprises, but there are also many successful and excellent operations. Overseas Chinese companies have a certain impact on the local economy, and they have also contributed to the improvement of the status of overseas Chinese.
Total population of Australia
Of the total population of 23.2 million, 37.13% are Aboriginal Australians, 31.65% English-Australians, 9.08% Irish-Australians, 7.56% Scottish-Australians, 4. 29% Italian-Australians, 4.09% German-Australians, 4% Chinese and others.
Australian Chinese distribution
The seven major cities in Australia have an mainland-born Chinese population of about three hundred and three thousand nine hundred and ninety nine, including:
- Sydney has one hundred and fifty thousand people, or 50%, and three hundred and sixty thousand Chinese.
- Melbourne: about 90,999 Chinese were born in mainland, or 30 percent.
- Brisbane: about 21,000 Chinese and 69343 Chinese were born in mainland.
- Pace: about 16,000 Chinese were born in mainland.
- Adelaide: about 16,000 Chinese were born in mainland.
- Canberra: 7000 Chinese were born in mainland.
- Gold Coast: about 3000 Chinese were born in mainland.
