About 20 Taiwan compatriots recently met at Kangmei village of Dongshan County, Fujian Province to voice their views on the "One China Principle and the Taiwan Problem" white paper issued by the Chinese Government. They all expressed the hope that Taiwan should be reunited with the Chinese mainland at an early date.

Most of the compatriots have come on a visit to their kith and kin in the village of Kangmei from Taiwan. Among them are several entrepreneurs with business undertakings launched in the place. They all expressed their firm support to the issuance of the White Paper.

Mr. Huang Yi, one of the Taiwan compatriots, said that only when China has got united and become powerful can we resist the bully of foreign forces. Mr. Huang had been rounded up in Kangmei and forced to serve as a solider in Taiwan in 1950 during the Kuomintang days. Now he is in his 70s. Since 1990, he has made a regular visit back to his home village Kangmei from Taiwan every year. Due to man-made obstacles set up by Taiwan authorities on the way of his home visit he has met a lot of difficulties due to a devious travel route to the motherland. He gives the hope that Taiwan is going to be reunited with the motherland and family reunions are to be had by people across the Taiwan Straits at a possible early date.

Mr. Fang, also from Taiwan, voiced his agreement with the saying that the Taiwan issue must not be delayed to an indefinite date. A timetable is necessary for troubles are unexpected for a long delay, he said. Like Mr. Huang Yi, Fang had also been a former villager of Dongshan. He had been seized from his home and forced to serve as a soldier in Taiwan when Kuomintang forces fled thither from the Chinese mainland back in 1950. As a former conscript pressganged into the KMT army, he has had enough of the bitterness of life as a result of forced separation from his family members over the past 50 years. So he shows all the more an eager desire to see a united motherland at the earliest possible date.

Mr. Wu is an entrepreneur back home to look after his business in Dongshan from Taiwan. He said that without cross-Straits reunification there will be no way to speak about family reunion for his family and many of his compatriots inTaiwan. This is a tragedy in Chinese history and it must be put an end to by an early reunification of the motherland, he said.