Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi has migrate to Hong Kong under HK’s Quality Migrant Admission Scheme (QMAS).
I am not sure if ‘migrate’ is the right word… Hong Kong is part of China afterall. There are a few advantages for Ziyi to move to Hong Kong though; one of the benefits is the ease of travelling overseas (which she does quite often)… some countries have different entry requirements (visa etc.) for mainland China residents and Hong Kong residents.
September 23rd, 2007 at 10:15 am
So, Yummy are you saying that she’s taking up residence in Hong Kong?
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:44 pm
I am not sure what you mean by taking up residence… even though HK is part of China now, mainlanders still need a visa of some sort to stay permanent in HK, like a PR… I guess that’s what Ziyi is getting.
September 24th, 2007 at 12:51 am
I guess what I mean, is that where she is going to be living now. Is she going to have a home (house, apt, etc) in Hong Kong? Sort of like people migrate to another place to live and make a new home.
It sounds as if she is, but that she will still require a visa to live there permanently, even though HK is part of China and she is a Chinese citizen.
September 24th, 2007 at 1:12 am
I am not sure if she already have a home in HK… but she can.
Here is an article that explains things better than I do…
“For Hollywood Chinese starlet Zhang Ziyi, the city she calls home is not going to be any place in the United States — the actress has successfully become a Hong Kong resident.
Beijing-born Zhang Ziyi is the third mainland celebrity to be added to Hong Kong’s population under the Quality Migrant Admission Scheme, Chinese news portal Sohu.com reported.
It means Zhang Ziyi can live in Hong Kong without any local-based employment.
Two other mainland entertainers who became Hong Kong residents under the scheme are pianists Lang Lang and Li Yundi.
Hong Kong launched the scheme in June 2006, in an effort to attract talented people to settle in the city.”
Credits to…
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/09/23/1261@276933.htm
September 27th, 2007 at 3:28 am
Thanks Yummy. Sounds like she is technically a new resident under that 2006 sceme even though as you say, she may or may not already actually live there. It’ll be interesting to see if she actually takes up residence there at some point for a length of time and lives in a house or apartment of some kind.