| With the formation of globalization and the rapid development of China, more andmore Chinese citizens go abroad, to the world. Meanwhile, the change of internationalpolitics and the global economic environment continues to worsen, and terrorist attacks,natural disasters, epidemic diseases and other non-traditional security problems continueto increase, and the China’s overseas citizens’ situation are Increasingly serious, theyhave experienced, and may experience crisis is also increasing. How to deal with andresolve this issue is a test of the Chinese government the ability to govern, but also aneffective way to reflect the "people-oriented" concept of governance.Topics facing in the new era of Chinese diplomacy, and the topics discussion inacademia, which pay more attention to the overseas Chinese citizens’ security andinterests. The Chinese Government has always been "people-oriented governance for thepeople" as the purpose of the ruling. People are the most valuable resource of allresources. The prosperity of China, the development of the world can not without thesupport of human resources. So protect the interests of overseas Chinese citizens can besaid to conform to the world trend. One country, related to the protection of the rights ofoverseas citizens is a country’s domestic and foreign affairs and other aspects.if wehandle it well, we will be gain the hearts of the people in our country, and gain therespects in the world; contrary, it may lead to internal problems outside the storm’scritical situation.This paper is divided into to three parts. In the first part, discusses the existing statesto protect its overseas interests of the citizens of the relevant theories, concepts, andoverseas Chinese citizens’ security protection of the object and content, the definition ofdiplomatic protection and consular protection and the relation between the two, and theimportance of overseas Chinese citizen’s security. The second part introduce theclassification of Xia Liping and Wang Duanyong about the security risk of overseasChinese citizens faced, and summarizes the reason in five aspects why overseas Chinesecitizens security incidents always happen, find out problems existing in the currentprotection measures. In the third part, from the law, individual, national three levelsrespectively expounds protect overseas Chinese citizens security in an effective way. |