<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Related ethnic groups </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Han Chinese Hakka people Cantonese people Chinese Caribbean Chinese Guyanese Chinese Surinamese Chinese Jamaicans </Td> </Tr> <P> Chinese - Trinidadian and Tobagonian (sometimes Sino - Trinidadian and Tobagonian or Chinese Trinbagonian) are Trinidadians and Tobagonians of Chinese ancestry . The group includes people from China, Hong Kong and Overseas Chinese who have immigrated to Trinidad and Tobago and their descendants, including those who have emigrated to other countries (especially the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, but also to other countries including China). The term is usually applied both to people of mixed and unmixed Chinese ancestry, although the former usually appear as mixed race in census figures . Chinese settlement began in 1806 . Between 1853 and 1866 2,645 Chinese immigrants arrived in Trinidad as indentured labour for the sugar and cacao plantations . Immigration peaked in the first half of the twentieth century, but was sharply curtailed after the Chinese Revolution in 1949 . After peaking at 8,361 in 1960, the (unmixed) Chinese population in Trinidad declined to 3,800 in 2000 . </P> <P> The Chinese Trinidadian and Tobagonian community is a diverse mixture that includes first - generation immigrants from China, Trinidadians whose ancestors have lived in Trinidad for many generations, and diasporan Trinidadians and Tobagonians, who have primarily settled in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom . The Chinese Trinidadian community includes people of unmixed and mixed Chinese ancestry, although the latter usually appear as mixed race in census figures in Trinidad and Tobago . Most Trinidadian Chinese originate from Guangdong province, especially among the Hakka people and Cantonese people . The Cantonese - speaking Han Chinese of Trinidad and Tobago, numbering 5500 </P>

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