This article is about Chinese people of British descent. For British people of Chinese descent, see British Chinese.
As of 2006, an estimated 36,000 British people live in China, including those living in Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China.[1] A different estimate puts the number of Britons in China (including Hong Kong) at 3,752,031,[2][3] the majority of which are those in Hong Kong who have continued to possess British nationality, particularly the British nationals (overseas) status, which numbered 3.4 million as of 2007.[4]