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| | Where Do The Migrants Originate? - US Department of State |
 | | Today this wide network of overseas ethic Chinese is of critical importance to mainland Chinese wishing to immigrate: it serves to ease the logistics of traveling to and settling in a foreign country, and it lowers the psychological barriers to leaving the homeland. |
 | | Fujian supplements light industry with natural resources such as coal, iron, limestone, hydroelectricity, forestry and fishing and traditional crops such as rice, sugar, tea and fruit. |
 | | In Fuzhou, Fujian's capital a dialect of Chinese is spoken which is unintelligible not only to speakers of Mandarin and Cantonese, but also to speakers of Minanhua (Southern Min dialect), which is prevalent in Xiamen and Taiwan. |
| usinfo.state.gov /eap/east_asia_pacific/chinese_human_smuggling/originate.html (1417 words) |
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