 While the Dongbei community has recently participated with Wenzhou community groups and many members have settled in Wenzhou Chinese areas, Chinese from Indochina still rarely interact with their peer groups from mainland China.This division of the Chinese community in France is rooted in history, the level of assimilation among groups, and to a lesser extent, politics.While Chinese from Indochina arrived in France largely as Vietnam War refugees, Wenzhounese and Dongbei migrants came for economic purposes, with some having an intent to return to China after a few years.