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How to actually move to china?
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Getting HK residency is relatively straight forward too. You can get permanent residency by legally working and living there for a continuous period of 7 years. After that, you apply to the Immigration Department for verification. This grants you permanent resident status in Hong Kong.
Although, that does not make you a Chinese citizen, you would still have to go through a separate naturalization process for Chinese nationality.
Exactly, for the most part it's as good as citizenship in practical terms. I was actually in HK for around a week just a little while back, and honestly it's pretty great. If you have a job, it's a very nice place to live. Everything is walkable, the weather is great, lots of fantastic food that's really cheap, and the city looks amazing.
Thank you for providing an actual answer. I hate the people both here and on reddit who look at this question and just get incensed by the audacity for some reason.
If you get Taiwanese citizenship, you can pretty much go everywhere in China. The government is very deliberate to treat Taiwanese equivalent to mainland Chinese. You could probably just try that.