Publishing industries on both sides of the Taiwan Strait should collaborate more closely to tap into the booming Chinese language education market worldwide, said Liu Binjie (柳斌杰), head of China’s General Administration of Publications and Press at a forum in Taipei yesterday.
“More than 30 million people worldwide take up Chinese each year. We estimate the figure could rise to 100 million,” Liu said.
Liu is heading a delegation of Chinese publishing and printing companies to Taiwan to celebrate 20 years of exchanges between the literary industries on both sides.
“Despite conflict between China and Taiwan throughout the years, the publishing industries on both sides remained friendly to each other. It’s a testament to culture and literature as great ways to promote understanding and assuage hostilities,” he said.
Liu encouraged more Taiwanese and Chinese businesspeople to invest in each other’s distribution and printing companies.
Taiwanese companies are barred from setting up independent publishing houses in China. All investments must be a joint-ventures with China-based companies.
The rules on Chinese investment in Taiwan’s publishing industry are even stricter, said a member of the Chinese delegation who asked not to be named.
In his address, Liu said Taiwan and China should seek to promote Chinese culture and that the publishing industry was the best conduit to do so.
Liu, however, did not mention promoting Taiwan's culture and literature to China and the rest of the world.
In a speech, Government Information Office Chief Vanessa Shih (史亞平) urged the Chinese government to give Taiwanese publishing companies priority in reviewing applications for foreign investors as well as streamlining the application process to make it easier for Taiwanese publishing companies to do business in China.
Shih also advocated stronger bilateral cooperation on tackling intellectual property and copyright violations, saying that all publications, whether in print, digital, or audio-visual, must be given full respect.
Taiwan's experience in creating digital content, animation and video-games can greatly enhance related industries in China, she said.
Taiwan would benefit from more integrated military strategies and deployments if the US and its allies treat the East China Sea, the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea as a “single theater of operations,” a Taiwanese military expert said yesterday. Shen Ming-shih (沈明室), a researcher at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research, said he made the assessment after two Japanese military experts warned of emerging threats from China based on a drill conducted this month by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Eastern Theater Command. Japan Institute for National Fundamentals researcher Maki Nakagawa said the drill differed from the
‘WORSE THAN COMMUNISTS’: President William Lai has cracked down on his political enemies and has attempted to exterminate all opposition forces, the chairman said The legislature would motion for a presidential recall after May 20, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) said yesterday at a protest themed “against green communists and dictatorship” in Taipei. Taiwan is supposed to be a peaceful homeland where people are united, but President William Lai (賴清德) has been polarizing and tearing apart society since his inauguration, Chu said. Lai must show his commitment to his job, otherwise a referendum could be initiated to recall him, he said. Democracy means the rule of the people, not the rule of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), but Lai has failed to fulfill his
A rally held by opposition parties yesterday demonstrates that Taiwan is a democratic country, President William Lai (賴清德) said yesterday, adding that if opposition parties really want to fight dictatorship, they should fight it on Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) held a protest with the theme “against green communists and dictatorship,” and was joined by the Taiwan People’s Party. Lai said the opposition parties are against what they called the “green communists,” but do not fight against the “Chinese communists,” adding that if they really want to fight dictatorship, they should go to the right place and face
A 79-year-old woman died today after being struck by a train at a level crossing in Taoyuan, police said. The woman, identified by her surname Wang (王), crossed the tracks even though the barriers were down in Jhongli District’s (中壢) Neili (內壢) area, the Taoyuan Branch of the Railway Police Bureau said. Surveillance footage showed that the railway barriers were lowered when Wang entered the crossing, but why she ventured onto the track remains under investigation, the police said. Police said they received a report of an incident at 6:41am involving local train No. 2133 that was heading from Keelung to Chiayi City. Investigators
RSS