There is a small ethnic Chinese community in Belgium, compared to neighbouring Netherlands, Germany and France.

Beginning in the 1950s people from the New Territories of Hong Kong began to settle Europe.

[4] They moved due to a lack of jobs in Hong Kong and political developments in Mainland China.

Pang Ching Lin (彭靜蓮, Pinyin: Péng Jìnglián), author of "Invisible Visibility: Intergenerational Transfer of Identity and Social Position of Chinese Women in Belgium," stated that therefore there is a lack of records specifically tracking Chinese people, and therefore there is an element of invisibility.

[6] In 2008, De Morgen reported that the total of Han Chinese living in Belgium are estimated to be around 30.000.