BEIJING: Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, has called on young people from both sides of the Taiwan Straits to join hands in realizing the Chinese dream of national rejuvenation. Xi made the remarks in a letter replying to young people from Taiwan attending the 20th Straits Youth Forum, which was held in Xiamen, Fujian province. He encouraged young people from Taiwan to share their experience and feelings with their peers on the island to help them get to know the mainland and jointly strive relentlessly for national rejuvenation.
The forum, launched in 2003, is an annual event focusing on the role of young people in cross-Straits exchanges and integration.
Xi said in the letter that he was delighted to learn that the young people from Taiwan had found a stage on the mainland to realize their dreams, and that they had witnessed the rapid development and changes of the motherland, and felt the warm affection between compatriots on both sides of the Straits who are of one family. The future of the motherland and the nation rests on its young people, Xi said, adding that, as always, favorable conditions will be created for young people across the Taiwan Straits to learn from each other and provide more convenience for young people from Taiwan to study, work, start businesses and live on the mainland.
Fifty young people from Taiwan who had been invited to attend this year’s Straits Youth Forum recently wrote a letter to Xi, in which they described their experiences of studying, working and living on the mainland and expressed their determination to contribute to national rejuvenation and the reunification of the motherland. Xi’s reply letter has inspired Taiwan youth on the mainland. “Xi always pays attention to the development of young people from Taiwan on the mainland and we feel his expectations for us from the reply letter, that we should better promote cross-Straits integration and achieve common prosperity,” said Fan-Chiang Feng, manager of the Qida Straits Youths Entrepreneurial and Incubation Center.
–The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
