'One Country, Two Systems' Best Way to Resolve Taiwan Issue

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'One Country, Two Systems' Best Way to Resolve Taiwan Issue

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Vice-Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Liu Shanzai said the principle of "one country, two systems", already proven a success in Hong Kong, is the best way to resolve the Taiwan issue.

"Five years of implementing the principle in Hong Kong has proven the principle workable. It is enduring, and it gives due regards to history, to reality; and it's the best way to realize the complete unification of China," Liu said.

Liu was speaking to open the "One Country, Two Systems and the Unification of China Symposium" organized by the Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong Thursday.

Liu said under the "one country, two systems" principle advocated by late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, five years on after Hong Kong's return to the motherland on July 1, 1997, HKSAR Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa has been running Hong Kong in strict accordance with the Basic Law, with Hong Kong enjoying autonomy in making policies in its political, economic and social aspects.

Being politically and socially stable, Hong Kong has also fended off the disastrous impacts of Asian financial crisis a few years ago, and such a success has been well-recognized by the international communities, he added.

Liu stressed that there is only one China, both the mainland and Taiwan belong to the one China, and that China's sovereignty and territorial integrity must not be undermined. Both the people of Taiwan and the people on the mainland are Chinese people.

"Realizing the complete unification of China is the popular aspiration of all the Chinese in the world," he said.

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