The governor of China’s Fujian Province, Su Shulin (蘇樹林), arrived in Greater Taichung yesterday at the head of a delegation to begin a five-day visit.
“Both Greater Taichung Mayor Jason Hu (胡志強) and I have aspirations for bilateral cooperation,” Su said as he and Hu presided over the signing ceremony of a tourism cooperation agreement between Taichung and Fujian Province.
The pact was signed by the -Fujian Provincial Tourism Association, the Association of Taichung Travel Agencies and three other tourism-related groups.
Photo: Chan Chao-yang, Taipei Times
They hope to bring as many as 280,000 Chinese tourists to Taiwan this year via the Fujian-Taichung route.
About 1,000 Fujianese from various tour groups arrived in Greater Taichung yesterday via ferries or planes, to be greeted by lion dancers and Aboriginal dancers.
“It’s wise of you to choose -Taichung as the first stop on your Taiwan tour,” Hu said in his welcoming remarks to the visitors.
Photo: CNA
Hu said many ancestral families of Taiwanese came from Fujian Province and that tourists would face “no language barriers” when visiting Greater Taichung.
Su said he felt deeply the passion of Taiwanese. Noting that more than 80 percent of Taiwanese had their ancestral home in Fujian Province, he said Greater Taichung was like both a relative and a neighbor.
Su’s delegation was to later visit Taichung Park and Sun Moon Lake to promote cross-strait delicacies and artistic activities.
Su, a former president of China Petrochemical Corp is scheduled to hold a seminar to introduce China’s Pingtan Comprehensive Experimental Zone today in Hsinchu.
China has been touting Pingtan, a 371km2 island off the coast of Fujian Province, as an “experimental zone” for joint cross-strait management.
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