City vice mayor in Taipei for key forum
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Vice Mayor Hua Yuan, at the 2024 Shanghai-Taipei City Forum, extended a warm invitation to Taiwan residents to visit Shanghai and promised to promote group tours to Taiwan for Shanghai residents, with Taipei a must stop.
Yesterday’s forum saw memorandums of cooperation in smart medicine and red panda conservation signed between the two cities.
In his opening address, Hua expressed the hope that the cities take the forum as an opportunity to deepen cooperation in fields such as transport, medical care and ecology, and promote mutually beneficial development.
“The forum has bridged the two cities, bringing us closer and more intimate,” he said.
“We sincerely invite Taipei citizens and Taiwan compatriots to visit Shanghai more often, and we also hope that Shanghai citizens can visit Taiwan and Taipei more often. To this end, Shanghai will actively promote group tours for Shanghai residents to Taiwan, and the tour routes will definitely include Taipei City.”
Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office, reiterated the mainland’s commitment to normalizing cross-Strait travel yesterday.
“We support normalizing cross-Strait travel and tourism,” Zhu said, emphasizing that Shanghai’s stance reflects the shared desire for peace and development. She urged the Democratic Progressive Party authorities to lift restrictions on cross-Strait exchanges to benefit people on both sides.
Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an said that, despite difficulties, Taipei and Shanghai had been hosting the forum regularly.
“The more tense and difficult the moment, the more need for communication. It is better to understand each other than to misunderstand.”
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