福建是仅次于广东的我国著名的第二大侨乡。目前祖籍福建的海外华人华侨约有800多万人,分布在全世界5大洲100多个国家和地区,其中约90%居住在东南亚的印度尼西亚、马来西亚、新加坡、菲律宾、泰国、越南、缅甸等国家。福建省的归侨和侨眷约有600多万人,占全省总人口的15%左右。本文拟就福建华侨的几个主要特点简述如下:一、移居海外历史悠久 Fujian is second only to Guangdong’s famous second largest hometown of overseas Chinese. At present, there are about 8 million overseas Chinese overseas Chinese that have their ancestral home in Fujian. They are distributed in more than 100 countries and regions in 5 continents and about 90% of them live in Southeast Asia such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar . There are about 6 million returned and overseas Chinese dependents in Fujian Province, accounting for about 15% of the province’s total population. This article intends to outline several key features of overseas Chinese in Fujian as follows: First, migrating overseas has a long history