自1951年起，重視僑生嘅中華民國政府年年都較出數千幾蚊嘅教育經費，資助香港、澳門、新加坡、馬來西亞等地嘅海外華籍僑生到臺灣升學，預香港僑生迄今最低限已有五萬人。1997年前，所有到臺灣升學嘅香港僑生，都有優惠資格攞中華民國國民身份證，因而可副投票權。
Since 1951, the government of the Republic of China, which attaches great importance to overseas Chinese students, has allocated more than 1,000 yuan of education funds every year to subsidize overseas Chinese students from Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, Malaysia and other places to study in Taiwan, and it is estimated that the minimum number of overseas Chinese students in Hong Kong has reached 50,000. Before 1997, all overseas Chinese students from Hong Kong who went to Taiwan for further studies were eligible for preferential access to the Republic of China National Identity Card, and thus had the right to vote.