Santo Domingo, RD.
A report highlights that by 2020 about 50% of Chinese migrants worked as merchants in the Dominican Republic, while 36% were in the private sector.
The research of the Dominican Center for Studies on China (Cendoesch) underscores this 14% of the migrants from the People’s Republic of China were involved in various activities such as culinary arts, engineering, education and medicine.
The study conducted by Diana Tejada and Joel Méndez indicates that the trade line has been most affected by Chinese migration, employing 90.18% of the Chinese workforce; while services (other than trade) and industries employ 3.21% and 2% of the Chinese workforce.
Points out 71.48% of that population in the country is made up of Chinese citizens between the ages of 20 and 49. Citing data from the Central Electoral Board (JCE), he states that 79.9% of Chinese migration has settled in the metropolitan area, with 47.94% in the national district and 31.96% in the province of Santo Domingo.
Elías Piña, San Juan and Pedernales are the only ones that have not served as a destination for the Chinese population.