With China’s state-owned enterprises（SOEs）going out，the Dayuan（compound）-style residential spaces have also extended to the overseas. To address this phenomenon, this paper takes the spatial study of“home”as the starting point,
and analyses the residential space of a SOE in Tanzania from a microscopic point of view. It is found that the going-out residential spaces are the“common home” created by collectivism from the top down, but the connotation of this“common
home”has changed in the process of encountering its external community and internal residents, generating a more flexible faraway“home”space.