Topic summary
Chaoxianzu
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Korean Chinese.
History and population
Chaoxianzu's presence in China began intensively in the late 19th and early to mid-20th centuries. In the 1964 national census, the number of ethnic Koreans in China was reported at over 1.3 million, or 0.19% of the Chinese population. By 1982, this figure had grown by 30% to 1.7 million, but due to rapidly increasing birth rates across China, the overall proportion of Koreans actually dropped slightly to 0.18%. This ranked Chaoxianzu as the 11th largest minority in the country.