[1] The Hong Kong census first began counting Sze Yap as an ancestral origin in 1961, and found that it was around 18.34% of the population, compared to 48.62% for the Guangzhou and Macau region.
[2] According to the 2011 Census and analysis done in the Routledge Handbook for Global Spanish, the constituency with the highest concentration of Sze Yap speakers was Nam Cheong Central in Sham Shui Po.
[3] Today many Hong Kong people of Sze Yap origin have become successful in areas such as the entertainment industry, business and politics.
As a result, Sze Yap people have dominated in the Hong Kong entertainment industry and play most major roles in the music and movie sectors.
Besides dominating the entertainment industry, Sze Yap people are quite dominant and influential in Hong Kong's Business Industry, such as the Bank of East Asia (東亞銀行) (the Li family's ancestry is in Heshan), Lee Kum Kee (李錦記), Hang Lung Properties, Maxim's Catering (美心),[6] Hysan Development, Li & Fung (利豐), Lui Che-woo of Galaxy Entertainment Group and K. Wah International Holdings Ltd and many others.