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[TaiShang]

Chinese mainland to issue electronic travel passes to Taiwan Province visitors
September 15, 2015

The Chinese mainland will begin issuing electronic travel passes to Taiwan visitors from Sept. 21, replacing the current paper versions.

Taiwan residents can apply to the mainland's public security department above the county level to convert their passes to basic computer readable cards, the ministry said in a statement.

Current travel passes can continue to be used by travelers from the island within the term of validity, it added.

The mainland simplified entry rules for Taiwan residents in July. Under the revised regulation, they just need a travel pass to enter the mainland, instead of applying for an entry permit for every visit.

The electronic travel pass is the mainland's latest move to make it easier to visit by increasing the efficiency of card issuance and checkup, the ministry said.

The use of electronic travel passes has been piloted in Fujian Province since July 6, with 204,000 e-cards issued so far.

 

[TaiShang]

Cross-strait wedding ceremony a highlight of tour festival
By Hu Min | September 18, 2015, Friday |

A file photo of a traditional Chinese wedding ceremony which was held in Fengjing Water Town.

A traditional Chinese wedding ceremony featuring 20 cross-strait couples and the Dianshan Lake shopping and tourism festival and will be held in Jinshan and Qingpu districts respectively over the weekend as part of the ongoing Shanghai Tourism Festival.

In Jinshan’s Fengjing Water Town, a total of 20 couples with one from Taiwan and the other from the mainland will wear old-fashioned Chinese gowns and suits and follow traditional wedding procedures in ancient China for the wedding.

Their wedding banquet will be held at the Jinshan farmer painting village.

The Dianshan Lake shopping and tourism festival will include a yacht race on the lake, the biggest lake in Shanghai, tours to explore Qingpu's Zhujiajiao, Jinze and Liantang ancient towns and a charity concert.

The festival will run between tomorrow and October 7.

The Shanghai Tourism Festival will run through October 6.

 

[AndrewJin]

Cross-strait wedding ceremony a highlight of tour festival
By Hu Min | September 18, 2015, Friday |

A file photo of a traditional Chinese wedding ceremony which was held in Fengjing Water Town.

A traditional Chinese wedding ceremony featuring 20 cross-strait couples and the Dianshan Lake shopping and tourism festival and will be held in Jinshan and Qingpu districts respectively over the weekend as part of the ongoing Shanghai Tourism Festival.

In Jinshan’s Fengjing Water Town, a total of 20 couples with one from Taiwan and the other from the mainland will wear old-fashioned Chinese gowns and suits and follow traditional wedding procedures in ancient China for the wedding.

Their wedding banquet will be held at the Jinshan farmer painting village.

The Dianshan Lake shopping and tourism festival will include a yacht race on the lake, the biggest lake in Shanghai, tours to explore Qingpu's Zhujiajiao, Jinze and Liantang ancient towns and a charity concert.

The festival will run between tomorrow and October 7.

The Shanghai Tourism Festival will run through October 6.

This is interesting.
I once biked from downtown Shanghai all the way to Dianshan Lake.
Shanghai has a lot of charming towns and lakes in the suburban area.

 

[TaiShang]

China's ID cards for Taiwan residents start today

September 21, 2015, 12:00 am TWN

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- China announced unilaterally yesterday that it will formally begin issuing card versions of its travel permit to R.O.C. nationals today, a move that has ruffled the feathers of Taiwan's administration.

Local Chinese government jurisdictions at the county-level and above will issue the card version "Taibaozheng" (台胞證) to Taiwan residents in lieu of the older paper version, which has now been discontinued. Cards will be valid for five years before needing to be renewed, replacing single entry (up to three months) or multiple entry endorsements (of up to three years) procedures.

The "Taibaozheng" is a document resembling a passport that carries the entry permits for Taiwanese citizens, who the mainland Chinese government refers to as "Taibao" (Taiwanese compatriots). In July, Chinese authorities began pilot initiatives in Fujian Province (adjacent to Taiwan) paving the way for a policy announced by Yu Zhengsheng (俞正聲), the chairman of China's National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in June, which sought to end permit requirements for Taiwan travelers entering mainland Chinese territory.

 

[TaiShang]

Cross-Strait weather, earthquake pacts take effect
2015 09 30

BEIJING -- Agreements between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan to cooperate in meteorological and seismic monitoring took effect on Wednesday.

Both sides are ready to implement the two agreements, according to briefs exchanged between the mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) and the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF).

The mainland and Taiwan will aim to jointly improve early warning and relief capacities, according to an ARATS statement.

Under the seismic pact, the two sides agreed to share resources and cooperate in earthquake monitoring, publicity and education on disaster prevention, and personnel exchanges.

The meteorological pact covers cooperation in meteorological operations and technology, including information sharing, research and monitoring typhoons, rainstorms and other weather phenomena.

China is prone to earthquakes and extreme weather. Taiwan is located in a seismically active zone on the Pacific Ring of Fire, while the mainland also sits on several earthquake belts.

 

[TaiShang]

Mainland, Taiwan mark end of Japanese occupation

A series of commemoration activities were held today in both the Chinese mainland and Taiwan to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of a 50-year Japanese occupation. In Taipei, over 1,100 veterans and families of deceased soldiers participated in a commemoration held by local authorities.

Taiwan top leader Ma Ying-jeou said that Taiwan's resistance against Japanese aggression began in 1895 and the history should never be forgotten. Meanwhile, an academic seminar was held in the southern Chinese mainland city of Guangzhou.

Over 130 experts and scholars from the Chinese mainland, Taiwan, Canada, Japan and South Korea took part in the discussion and submitted a total of 85 theses, aiming to help to promote Cross-Straits relations.

Taiwan and its affiliated islands was ceded to Japan by the Qing government in 1895. China recovered the territory in 1945 when Japan surrendered to end World War Two.

 

[Place Of Space]

Why the Chiang Kai Shek fled to Taiwan province, not to the Philippines in 1949?

 

[Aepsilons]

Why the Chiang Kai Shek fled to Taiwan province, not to the Philippines in 1949?

Because Taihoku's infrastructure was intact unlike the rest of post-1945 East Asia.

Remember the Americans didn't invade Taihoku, they bypassed it for Iwo Jima.

Their invasion of Philippines in 1944 was a bloody lesson for them. Invading Taihoku, then had population of 4 million Japanese subjects and with a reserve force of 250,000? Invading Taihoku would be suicide.

Jiang Jieshi was lucky he received Taihoku on a silver platter . Our most prized imperial crown colony.....

 

[Cossack25A1]

Why the Chiang Kai Shek fled to Taiwan province, not to the Philippines in 1949?

Why the heck would we accept him?

 

[Aepsilons]

Why the heck would we accept him?

Lol, he is comical isn't he?

 

[Jlaw]

Why the heck would we accept him?

Chiang may be incompetent but better than all the past pinoy presidents

 

[Aepsilons]

Chiang may be incompetent but better than all the past pinoy presidents

Hehe, his son was better : Chiang Ching-kuo.

 

[Cossack25A1]

Chiang may be incompetent but better than all the past pinoy presidents

Wow, everything coming from the CCs are "pinoys are failures."

I am not surprised.

 

[TaiShang]

We had a symposium last week on the end of the Japanese occupation in our institute. Delegates from all parts of Taiwan's society and from the Mainland China (a professor from Nanjing University, too, who is an expert on South China Sea issues) joined. We had also speakers from the two main political parties.

All the speakers agree that the period Japanese occupation cannot be and will not be white-washed.

There was a constant anti-Japanese struggle throughout the occupation. Those historical sites are being well-preserved.

The Land Bank of Taiwan owns a huge deposit of historical documents (original official documents of the Japanese colonial administration) regarding Japanese racism and collaboration with the Nazi's of Germany. The documents are available for researchers.

The occupation must be more broadly included in the school curriculum all the way down to cram schools.

 

[TaiShang]

Top political advisor to attend cross-Strait entrepreneurs summit
October 28, 2015

Top political advisor Yu Zhengsheng will attend the cross-Strait entrepreneurs summit, which is scheduled to open in Nanjing on November 3, a spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office said Wednesday.

The spokesperson said the two-day event will be focused on innovative cooperation and boosting integration of industries.

Yu, a member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China Central Committee Political Bureau and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, will deliver a speech at the event.