More mainland jobs to boost ties with Taiwan
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June 18, 2012, Monday
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More Taiwan residents will be able to work on the Chinese mainland after a number of preferential employment policies were announced at the fourth Straits Forum in China's southeastern coastal city of Xiamen yesterday.
Wang Yi, director of the State Council's Taiwan Affairs Office, said Taiwanese students who graduate from mainland colleges and other Taiwan residents can be employed in public institutions through open recruitment in the new pilot regions of Shanghai, Tianjin, Zhejiang and Hubei in addition to the provinces of Fujian and Jiangsu, Wang said.
Taiwan residents who have recognized credentials from mainland educational authorities can work in mainland public institutions, including colleges and universities, and cultural and medical institutions in the six provinces and municipalities, he added.
The mainland's employment service agencies will provide free consulting services for Taiwan residents.
The moves were part of a package of policies announced by mainland authorities to strengthen ties with Taiwan covering the economy, culture, scientific research and employment, as well as entry and exit policies.
Entry permits
Others included the mainland's National Tourism Bureau taking measures to realize a target of 1.8 million Taiwan-bound tourists this year.
Residents in another 11 cities in Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces west of the Taiwan Strait will be allowed to visit Taiwan's Kinmen, Matsu and Pengghu islands as independent visitors, in addition to the nine cities in Fujian.
The mainland's public security authority is also to lengthen the validity of Taiwan residents' entry permits to the mainland from one year to two years.
To deepen scientific cooperation, the National Natural Science Foundation of China will launch a "union fund" with Fujian Province. All natural science research programs across the Strait can apply to the fund, which will have an annual investment of 30 million yuan (US$4.7 million).
Meanwhile, four mainland banks are to offer credit of 600 billion yuan to Taiwanese-invested businesses on the mainland.
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Bank of China, China Construction Bank and China Development Bank will provide the loans in the next three or four years, Wang said.
The mainland will also open the door to rice imports from Taiwan, Wang said.
China's top political advisor addressed the forum yesterday with a call to maintain the momentum of people-to-people exchanges.
Jia Qinglin, chairman of the national committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said in his keynote speech that expanding and deepening cross-Strait exchanges was the best way to achieve mutual understanding, mutual learning and mutual benefits.
"Identifying that both sides of the Strait belong to the Chinese nation, opposing Taiwan independence and supporting cross-Strait exchanges and equal consultations, have become the common sense of people across the Strait and the mainstream will of people in Taiwan," Jia said.
"Consolidating and deepening the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations is the shared responsibility of people from the two sides," he said.
Hung Hsiu-chu, vice chairwoman of Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang, called for the establishment of a positive and benign development model for cross-Strait ties.
"If we speak more words that are favorable to cross-Strait ties and do more things that can benefit both sides, we can establish a more positive and benign development model," she said.
The Straits Forum, the largest platform for mainland-Taiwan exchanges, began on Saturday and ends this Friday.
Wang Yi, director of the State Council's Taiwan Affairs Office, said Taiwanese students who graduate from mainland colleges and other Taiwan residents can be employed in public institutions through open recruitment in the new pilot regions of Shanghai, Tianjin, Zhejiang and Hubei in addition to the provinces of Fujian and Jiangsu, Wang said.
Taiwan residents who have recognized credentials from mainland educational authorities can work in mainland public institutions, including colleges and universities, and cultural and medical institutions in the six provinces and municipalities, he added.
The mainland's employment service agencies will provide free consulting services for Taiwan residents.
The moves were part of a package of policies announced by mainland authorities to strengthen ties with Taiwan covering the economy, culture, scientific research and employment, as well as entry and exit policies.
Entry permits
Others included the mainland's National Tourism Bureau taking measures to realize a target of 1.8 million Taiwan-bound tourists this year.
Residents in another 11 cities in Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces west of the Taiwan Strait will be allowed to visit Taiwan's Kinmen, Matsu and Pengghu islands as independent visitors, in addition to the nine cities in Fujian.
The mainland's public security authority is also to lengthen the validity of Taiwan residents' entry permits to the mainland from one year to two years.
To deepen scientific cooperation, the National Natural Science Foundation of China will launch a "union fund" with Fujian Province. All natural science research programs across the Strait can apply to the fund, which will have an annual investment of 30 million yuan (US$4.7 million).
Meanwhile, four mainland banks are to offer credit of 600 billion yuan to Taiwanese-invested businesses on the mainland.
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Bank of China, China Construction Bank and China Development Bank will provide the loans in the next three or four years, Wang said.
The mainland will also open the door to rice imports from Taiwan, Wang said.
China's top political advisor addressed the forum yesterday with a call to maintain the momentum of people-to-people exchanges.
Jia Qinglin, chairman of the national committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said in his keynote speech that expanding and deepening cross-Strait exchanges was the best way to achieve mutual understanding, mutual learning and mutual benefits.
"Identifying that both sides of the Strait belong to the Chinese nation, opposing Taiwan independence and supporting cross-Strait exchanges and equal consultations, have become the common sense of people across the Strait and the mainstream will of people in Taiwan," Jia said.
"Consolidating and deepening the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations is the shared responsibility of people from the two sides," he said.
Hung Hsiu-chu, vice chairwoman of Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang, called for the establishment of a positive and benign development model for cross-Strait ties.
"If we speak more words that are favorable to cross-Strait ties and do more things that can benefit both sides, we can establish a more positive and benign development model," she said.
The Straits Forum, the largest platform for mainland-Taiwan exchanges, began on Saturday and ends this Friday.
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