There is no hard and fast rule for determining which is a qiaoxiang and which is not. One would go by the number of Chinese who have migrated abroad if such figures were reliable or even available. Statistics for returned Huaqiao and their dependants are no less patchy. But, for what it is worth, to the right is a map of towns and counties in Guangdong where, according to figures published in 1957, returned Chinese Huaqiao and their dependents were more than 10 per cent of the population.