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The Hoa people in Ho Chi Minh City number about 500,000. They live mainly in Cho Lon (District 5, District 6, District 10 and District 11), which is seen as a local Chinatown. As of 2010, the Hoa people population accounted for just 7% of the city's population, but its members owned around 30% of the city's privately held enterprises.
The official census from 2019 accounted the Hoa population at 749,466 individuals and ranked 9th in terms of its population size. 70% of the Hoa live in cities and towns in which they make up the largest minority group, mostly in Ho Chi Minh city while the remainder live in the countryside in the southern provinces.
In 1778, Hoa people living in Biên Hòa (mostly in City Isle; Cù lao Phố of Hiệp Hòa ward nowadays) had to take refuge in what is now Chợ Lớn because they were retaliated against by the Tây Sơn forces for their support of the Nguyễn lords. In 1782, more than 10,000 Hoa people were again massacred by the Tây Sơn and had to ...
Note: The term Hoa people is only applicable for Vietnamese citizens of Chinese ethnicity or descent. At any point of their lives, they should have held Vietnamese citizenship / nationality . This does not apply to ethnic Chinese or people of Chinese descent who are born overseas and have parents or ancestors that are born in Vietnam.
Hồ Chí Minh City (382,826 people, constituting 51.08% of all Hoa in Vietnam), Đồng Nai (87,497 people), Sóc Trăng (62,389 people), Kiên Giang (24,051 people), Bắc Giang (20,225 people), Bình Dương (17,993 people) Make up those with Mandarin-speaking Chinese background.
The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee is a 13-member executive branch of the city. The current chairman is Phan Văn Mãi. There are several vice chairmen and chairwomen on the committee with responsibility over various city departments. The legislative branch of the city is the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council and consists of 105 members.
Ewan MacColl produced "The Ballad of Ho Chi Minh" in 1954, describing "a man who is the father of the Indo-Chinese people, And his name [it] is Ho Chi Minh." [174] Russian songs about him were written by Vladimir Fere, and German songs about him were written by Kurt Demmler. [citation needed]
In this term, the National Assembly adopted the name "the Socialist Republic of Vietnam" (Cộng hoà xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam) for the re-unified country, merged corresponding organizations between the Government of North Vietnam and South Vietnam, and renamed Saigon as Ho Chi Minh City. It also approved the new Constitution in 1980.