Cross-Strait Seminar on a Bridge/Tunnel to Link up Mainland, Island Province

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Cross-Strait Seminar on a Bridge/Tunnel to Link up Mainland, Island Province

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Some 70 experts and scholars from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan gathered at Xiamen University on March 23 and 24 to attend a seminar on possibilities and plans to build a bridge and tunnel to link up the two territorial parts of China.

Two similar seminars had been held before. The first one opened in Xiamen, November 1998, at which three cross-straits routes were raised, that is, the north route, the middle route and the south route. The north route, the shortest of the three, runs from Fujian's Pingtan to Taiwan's Hsinchu and covers a length of 127 km. The middle route links Putian with central Taiwan. The south route, the longest one, runs from Xiamen's Xiuqiao to Xiaojinmen, to Jinmen, then to Penghu via tunnel, reaches Taiwan's Jiayi(Chia-i) via bridge and tunnel, covering a distance about 207 km over the sea. At the end of 1999, experts gathered in Pingtan and discussed the north route plan.

Co-sponsored by Xiamen University, Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences as well as cross-straits exchange association in Fujian Province, the seminar this time focused its discussion on the "south route" plan, that is, the "Xiamen-Jinmen-Penghu-Jiayi" suggestion, which turns out a combination of bridge, tunnel and island.

Governor of Fujian Province Xi Jinping send a congratulatory letter to the seminar, saying that the last hundreds of years have see frequent exchanges between the mainland and Taiwan, and construction of a cross-straits tunnel has become a dream of all Chinese people. If successfully built, it would be of great significance to national reunification and bring great development to both mainland and Taiwan.

By PD Online Staff Member Li Heng

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