HuayiNet's Mission

"…Chinese overseas refers to everyone of Chinese descent living outside Greater China"
-Prof Wang Gungwu, "Greater China & the Chinese Overseas"

Through the HuayiNet World Wide Web site, the Inter-Agency Committee on the Chinese Overseas Databank & Research, Singapore aims to:

• Promote wider international access to, and exchange of, information on the Chinese overseas.
• Become a resource portal for scholars, researchers, and others interested in activities of the Chinese overseas.
• Encourage greater co-ordination and partnership among Singapore-based libraries, research centres and community organizations, and among similar bodies in other parts of the world to promote information sharing on the Chinese overseas.
• Promote awareness and appreciation of the cultural heritage of the ethnic Chinese through the preservation and collection of rare documents and related information.