华侨华人是中国与沿线国家或地区合作建设“一带一路”的重要中介者、推动者和参与者。他们在政治、经济、文化方面都可能发挥助力作用。对华商案例的研究发现，国内企业利用境外华商的社会关系网络走出去，较容易获得成功；但对泰国案例的研究发现，当地的华商社会关系网络开始出现一些变化，华商社会关系网络的作用也不能一概而论。20世纪90年代中期以来，新移民的人数急剧上升，菲律宾新移民中有不少人想长期居留，但遭遇到合法居留的问题；非洲大多数新侨则较少打算长期发展，他们所面临的是孩子接受与国内教育接轨的教育问题。
Overseas Chinese is an important mediator，facilitator and participant in the construction of the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road along with the countries or regions along the path of the sea. The Belt and Road Initiative initiative provides better conditions for Chinese overseas Chinese mobile. This book discusses they may play in the The Belt and Road initiative in the role and the restriction of. In Chinese study，in Fujian Province as an example. Analysis domestic enterprises to use Chinese resources out to the existence of some problems，and to explore the Thai Chinese social relation network and its limitations，and the RMB exchange rate of Seacell along the country’s economic. Since the mid-90s of the 20th century，the number of new immigrants also rose sharply，in the case of the Philippines，the United States and Africa new overseas，analyzes them with past Chinese immigrants in the motivation，cultural integration and life encounter the problem of difference.
