Highlights

CROSS-STRAITS RELATIONS

Last year, I made a field trip to Fujian province, where I had a round-table (discussion) with some Taiwan businesspeople. Many of them were quite sensitive about any economic measures from the mainland and some were considering whether the preferential policy for Taiwan businesses would be changed. Their point was well taken, and we quickly issued a document specifying that all the preferential policies introduced for Taiwan businesses will remain unchanged, to reassure them. Why did we do that? Because we are all members of a big family. We will introduce more policies to boost business cooperation between the mainland and Taiwan on the premise that there will be continued peaceful development of cross-Straits relations, and the footstone of this is the 1992 Consensus.

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