Mainland urges Taiwan to make every effort to find tour group
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October 28, 2010, Thursday
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THE Chinese mainland yesterday called on Taiwan to make every effort in the search for 19 mainland tourists and their guide, missing on the island.
Yang Yi, the State Council's Taiwan Affairs Office spokesman, said that he hopes the Taiwan authorities will handle the incident properly.
A tour group from south China's Guangdong Province has been out of contact since October 21, after the group's bus was hit by Typhoon Megi-triggered landslides on the Suao-Hualien Highway on the island's east coast.
Despite a six-day search, tour group leader Tian Yuan, from Beijing, and 19 tourists remain missing.
Tsai Chih-ming, a Taiwanese driver on the bus, was confirmed dead on Tuesday. His remains was recovered at the highway on Monday.
Yang said the State Council's Taiwan Affairs Office has initiated an emergency response to coordinate rescue resources.
The National Tourism Administration and local government agencies in Guangdong have also been mobilized.
The mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait is keeping in close contact with the Taiwan-based Strait Exchange Foundation on the rescue work.
Some relatives of tour group leader Tian Yuan and the missing tourists have already arrived in Taiwan.
Altogether, 247 of the 269 mainland tourists in 13 tour groups stranded on the Suao-Hualien Highway when the typhoon hit have already returned to the mainland. Another two are still being treated in Taiwan.
Yang called on Taiwan authorities to draw lessons from the accident to improve security for mainland tourists.
Cross-Strait tourism might suffer in the short time from the incident but it will continue to develop in a healthy and orderly manner through better cooperation and improved security work, Yang said.
Taiwan authorities send more than 200 people to take part in the search yesterday. They found two suitcases as well as some yuan bank notes.
Yang Yi, the State Council's Taiwan Affairs Office spokesman, said that he hopes the Taiwan authorities will handle the incident properly.
A tour group from south China's Guangdong Province has been out of contact since October 21, after the group's bus was hit by Typhoon Megi-triggered landslides on the Suao-Hualien Highway on the island's east coast.
Despite a six-day search, tour group leader Tian Yuan, from Beijing, and 19 tourists remain missing.
Tsai Chih-ming, a Taiwanese driver on the bus, was confirmed dead on Tuesday. His remains was recovered at the highway on Monday.
Yang said the State Council's Taiwan Affairs Office has initiated an emergency response to coordinate rescue resources.
The National Tourism Administration and local government agencies in Guangdong have also been mobilized.
The mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait is keeping in close contact with the Taiwan-based Strait Exchange Foundation on the rescue work.
Some relatives of tour group leader Tian Yuan and the missing tourists have already arrived in Taiwan.
Altogether, 247 of the 269 mainland tourists in 13 tour groups stranded on the Suao-Hualien Highway when the typhoon hit have already returned to the mainland. Another two are still being treated in Taiwan.
Yang called on Taiwan authorities to draw lessons from the accident to improve security for mainland tourists.
Cross-Strait tourism might suffer in the short time from the incident but it will continue to develop in a healthy and orderly manner through better cooperation and improved security work, Yang said.
Taiwan authorities send more than 200 people to take part in the search yesterday. They found two suitcases as well as some yuan bank notes.
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