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散居在世界各地的华侨,以在南洋的最多;华侨最集中的地方,是新加坡。今天,新加坡华人是独立的新加坡国的国民了。可是,从历史上看,一直到本世纪五十年代,他们大抵是被公认为华侨的。英国殖民者在十九世纪初把新加坡开辟为商港,并且使之成为东南亚交通运输枢纽和物资集散中心。那时,切实地把新加坡建成为繁盛的商埠,华侨中的辛勤劳动的工人、活跃的大小商贩和具有聪明才智的工商企业家等贡献最大。新加坡在本
Overseas Chinese scattered all over the world, with the largest number in the South Pacific; the most concentrated overseas Chinese is Singapore. Today, the Chinese in Singapore are nationals of the independent Singaporean country. However, historically, until the 1950s, they were generally regarded as overseas Chinese. British colonialists opened up Singapore as a commercial port in the early nineteenth century and made it a transportation hub and distribution center for Southeast Asia. At that time, Singapore was indeed built into a prosperous commercial port, and the hard-working overseas Chinese workers, the large-scale and the smart-minded traders, and other industrial and commercial entrepreneurs contributed the most. Singapore in this