The number of Chinese people in Serbia according to 2011 census is 1,373. The community resides mainly in

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's capital,

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. Most have their origin in two provinces south of the

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region. None of the Chinese have

Serbian citizenship Citizenship of Serbia is regulated by the ''Citizenship Law of the Republic of Serbia'', adopted in 2004 and based primarily on the principle of Jus sanguinis. Article 23 of the citizenship law stipulates that any foreign national with Serbian ...

. The Chinese immigration to Serbia was prompted after former Yugoslav President

Slobodan Milošević Slobodan Milošević (, ; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the president of Serbia within Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1997 (originally the Socialist Republic of Serbia, a constituent republic of ...

and his wife

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visited

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in 1997. There were 30 Chinese people living in Serbia in August 1998.
/ref> There was a rumor that Milosevic imported over 50,000 Chinese people and gave them Yugoslavia, Yugoslav passports so that they could vote for him in elections. Other rumors say that the Chinese arrived here in order to take

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. The newspaper, Večernje novosti, says one part of town in particular has had a complete Chinese village transplanted into it: "The entire population of the Chinese village of Jincun,

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province has moved to

, specifically to Blok 70 where they have businesses in the local center (''Kineski centar'', "Chinese center") in the suburb of Novi Beograd." The Chinese send their children to schools in China when they have reached age for primary school, to learn the Chinese language like natives, which is important for the community. Besides Belgrade (Blok 70), there is also a sizable Chinese community in the second largest Serbian city

Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pan ...

, which has a Chinese trade center, as well as many Chinese shops and restaurants.

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Little China in Belgrade
12 February 2001 -- BBC Monitoring
(in Serbian)
{{Ethnic groups in Serbia

Ethnic groups in Serbia

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