Chinese Vietnamese people in Ho Chi Minh City. There are around 500,000 Chinese Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh City. They live mainly in Cho Lon (District 5, District 6 and District 10). Cholon is the name of the Chinese district of Ho Chi Minh City (the former Saigon the largest such Chinatown district in Vietnam. This can be seen as “China Town” in Ho Chi Minh City. Chinese Vietnamese population accounts just 4% of the city population but they hold around 30% of private-owned enterprises in this city. Many of these enterprises are successful companies like: Binh Tien, Thai Tuan, Kinh Do. Before Fall of Saigon, Chinese Vietnamese played a very important role in economic and political life of the Republic of Vietnam as they used to keep excellent relationships with the government. The Fall of Saigon (in Vietnamese: Sự kiện 30 tháng 4 - April 30 Incident; Giải phóng miền Nam - The liberation of the south "RVN" redirects here RVN is also the former callsign of a TV station in Wagga Wagga New South Wales Australia After the Fall of Saigon, especially after the Sino-Vietnamese War in 1979, many Chinese Vietnamese fled Vietnam to China, Southeast Asian Region, the Chinese Vietnamese still played an important role in trading, wholesale activities but their importance have reduced. The Fall of Saigon (in Vietnamese: Sự kiện 30 tháng 4 - April 30 Incident; Giải phóng miền Nam - The liberation of the south The Sino–Vietnamese War, also known as the Third Indochina War, was a brief but bloody border war fought in 1979 between the People's Republic of China (PRC China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National