There have been various migrations of ethnic minorities from China to Kazakhstan in the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as that of the Dungan people (Hui) fleeing Qing Dynasty forces after a failed 1862–1877 rebellion in Northwest China or the Uyghur and Kazakh exodus from Xinjiang during the 1950s Great Leap Forward; however, their descendants do not consider themselves to be "Chinese people".
[7] The Daoist Chinese master Qiu Chuji travelled through Kazakhstan to meet Genghis Khan in Afghanistan.
[13] Among visitors are citizens of various ethnicities: Han, Kazakhs, Uighurs, Dungans (Hui), Uzbeks, Koreans and others.
[14] The recruitment of the working force from China, largely entering the country as employees of Chinese companies, dates back to 1993.
559 workers from China entered the country according to governmentally approved quota for attracting the foreign labour force.
[17] Most of the products which Chinese traders sell are purchased in the special economic zones in the Xinjiang border regions.
[24] However, this eventually requires them to give up their Chinese nationality and right of residence; according to Xinjiang media, many later come to regret this move.
[4][26] Kazakh repatriates from China tend to find jobs at Chinese companies or joint ventures.
[4] According to the official data, in 1995-2014, Kazakhstan citizenship was granted in total to 73,800 individuals from China, of who 73,713 were Kazakh repatriates; 13 – Han Chinese, and 73 – other ethnicities (as of January 1, 2015).
[34] There is a popular perception that a large and rapidly growing number of Chinese people marry Kazakhstani citizens to obtain permanent residency in the country, but in fact, there were only 74 such marriages between 1991 and 2007.