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What are the Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust aims?

The Trust aims to strengthen the unique identity of Chinese New Zealanders and their communities in New Zealand in recognition of the poll tax payers by:

  • promoting the preservation of Chinese New Zealand history and awareness of the contributions of early Chinese settlers
  • providing tangible support for Chinese New Zealand history, language and culture, particularly that of the early settler Chinese community

該信託基金旨在加強加紐西蘭華人和紐西蘭華人族群的獨特認同感，進而補償人頭稅的納稅人，具體做法包括：

  • 提倡保存紐西蘭華人的歷史，並宣傳早期華人移民的貢獻
  • 對紐西蘭華人歷史、語言和文化提供具體支持，尤其是早期華人移民社群

The Trust promotes, but does not limit itself to, funding:

  • learning and use of the Cantonese language
  • awareness and understanding of the history of Chinese communities in New Zealand
  • the recording and preserving of Chinese New Zealand history
  • greater public understanding of ethnic diversity with particular emphasis on the contributions of Chinese New Zealanders
  • Chinese arts and culture (including Chinese New Zealand creative and cultural expression).

The New Zealand government established the Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust in 2004 with $5 million as a gesture of reconciliation in support of the formal apology. The Trust is a gesture of goodwill to the poll tax payers, their descendants and future generations in recognition of the hardship caused by the poll tax and other discriminatory legislation.

紐西蘭政府在2004年成立500萬紐幣的「華人人頭稅遺產信託基金」，當作正式道歉以外的和解姿態。這筆信託基金是向人頭稅納稅人、他們的後代子孫所表達的一種善意，補償人頭稅和其他不公平法規對他們造成的痛苦。