page_title: Mainland Chinese
section_title: "Mainlanders" in Hong Kong
hierarchical_section_title: Mainland Chinese / "Mainlanders" in Hong Kong
caption_attribution_description: English: Secretary-General of Estonian MFA Alar Streimann meeting Dr. Tung Chee Hwa, GBM, Vice Chairman of the National Committee, The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
context_page_description: Mainland Chinese or Mainlanders are Chinese people who live in the continental region of East Asia. The term "mainland China" is contemporarily used to refer to regions directly administered by the People's Republic of China, as opposed to special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau, the island of Taiwan, and other ethnic Chinese-majority areas of the Chinese diaspora. The term is also often used by the Hokkien-speaking Taiwanese people to distinguish themselves from residents who were born in mainland China, if not directly calling the Mainlanders and themselves as "Chinese" and "Taiwanese" respectively.
  Due to the rapid economic growth of China, Mainland Chinese constitute an increasingly bigger part of global tourism.
context_section_description: In Hong Kong and Macau, "mainlander" or "inlander" (Chinese: 內地人; pinyin: Nèidì Rén, jyutping: noi6 dei6 jan4) refers to residents of mainland China, or recent immigrants from mainland China.
caption: Tung Chee Hwa, former Chief Executive of Hong Kong.
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