VANCOUVER — China’s zero\u002DCOVID lockdowns have been linked to a rare wave of protests across the country in recent weeks, and immigration industry experts say…
Immigration from China hasbounced back from pandemic lulls to hit a new peak, according to Canadian government statistics, and immigration consultants report an ongoing surge of inquiries.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails.
That is more than triple the pandemic low of 2,980 in the same quarter of 2020, and is also up 15 per cent from 8,690 recorded in the third quarter of 2019, before the pandemic hit. “There is a strong vibe that we are picking up on people wanting to get out for those reasons more than anything.” “Because of COVID-19, many decided to come here to visit their family members in Canada,” Wong said in an interview in Mandarin.
The bilingual term refers to studying ways to get out of China, and is widely used on Chinese-language websites and chat rooms.
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