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A Chinese New Zealander () is a New Zealander of Chinese ancestry. They constitute one group of Overseas Chinese and represent the second largest Chinese community in Oceania behind the Chinese community in Australia. Many Chinese New Zealanders are immigrants along with their descendants from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, as well a handful of other countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore who have immigrated from Southeast Asia that include large populations of the Chinese diaspora. As of 2006, Chinese New Zealanders account approximately three percent of the total population of New Zealand, and represent the largest Asian ethnic group in New Zealand accounting approximately 44% of the entire Asian New Zealander population.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.stats.govt.nz/~/media/Statistics/Census/2001-Census-reports/Asian/2001-census-AsianPeople.pdf )〕 The first records of ethnic Chinese in New Zealand were the immigrants from Guangdong province, China, who arrived during the 1850s goldrush era. Due to this historical influx, there is still a distinct Chinese community in the Southern city of Dunedin, whose mayor Peter Chin is of Chinese descent. However, most Chinese New Zealanders live in the North Island, and are of more recent migrant heritage.〔(【引用サイトリンク】archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20090522030828/http://www.handsonhistory.co.nz/pre-chinese.htm )〕 ==Demographics== In the 2001 Census, 3% of the total New Zealand population (100,680 people) identified as Chinese〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2006 Census Data - QuickStats About Culture and Identity )〕 Chinese immigrants to New Zealand tend to live in two major cities in New Zealand, Auckland and Wellington. The majority of Chinese New Zealanders were from Mainland China, Taiwan made up a third of all immigrants and ten percent came from Malaysia. The remainder of Chinese immigrants to New Zealand came from Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Indonesia.〔 In the 2013 census in New Zealand, the size of the Chinese New Zealander population stood at approximately 171,000. This represented a 16% increase in population from the 2006 census in the country, when the size of the Chinese New Zealander population stood at 147,000.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chinese New Zealander」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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