The hometown of overseas Chinese embodies the process of cultural exchange and integration between China and the West. The most intuitive ones are town planning and layout, arcade and watchtower construction. They fully demonstrated the wisdom of overseas Chinese in Wuyi in combining bold cultural innovation with local natural and human geographical environment in the process of absorbing western culture and combining with local culture.

Generally speaking, there is no provincial-level area to designate "hometown of overseas Chinese". There are many counties in Fujian, Guangdong, which are called hometown of overseas Chinese. Taishan, Guangdong Province is the largest hometown of overseas Chinese in China, known as the inland overseas Chinese capital and the title of "the first hometown of overseas Chinese in China".

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Chaozhou is prosperous because of overseas Chinese, and it will also be full of vitality and charm because of overseas Chinese. At present, the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government are making every effort to play the brand of "Overseas Chinese", insisting on paying equal attention to "going out" and "please come in", further expanding opening to the outside world, strengthening cultural exchanges and cooperation with foreign countries, deepening the nostalgia and friendship in deep-level cultural and economic films, better polishing the brand of "China's famous hometown of overseas Chinese" and transforming the advantages of overseas Chinese into development advantages in the new era.

In recognition of the righteous acts and deeds of overseas patriotic villagers and celebrities, Chaozhou has awarded "honorary citizens" to 25 overseas celebrities, including Zhuang Shiping, Li Ka-shing, Chen Weinan, Tsung i Jao, Chen Fuli, Xie Guomin and Zheng Jinghong, in two batches since 195.