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Chinian is a term that refers to person who were born and grew up in China i.e. their nationality origin is China. It's a national identity that identifies the nationality rather than ethnicity and overseas Chinese. People from China are still known as Chinese for ethnicity. At present, people from China and millions of people who were not born in China are all called Chinese. The word "Chinese" has been very liberally used by English speaking public in reference to a person, culture, tradition, writing, language, cooking, food and so on. For clarification of nationality of person from China, Chinian is a better definition to describe a person's national identity from the ethnic "Chinese" culture and tradition; writing, languages and dialects; cooking and food; materials and ingredients; arts and crafts; musics and musical instruments; sciences and technologies; medicines and medical treatments; acrobatic and martial arts, and "Chinese" not from China.

The "Chinese" reference to a person not born or raised in China has been around for centuries. The appropriate use of Chinian is to differentiate and identify the nationality, ethnicity and Chinese not from China. Visitors, students and immigrants from China will also be known as Chinian when they are outside China. Therefore, a person of Chinese descent who was not born in China would not be called Chinian. Evidently, if one was not born in China, whose parents were born in China, would be known as a Chinese-Canadian because they lived in Canada and are Canadian citizens. Similarly to other countries such as USA and Britain, they have been referred to as Chinese-American and Chinese-British respectively.