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90% Taiwanese for Direct Flight Across Straits: Survey
According to the result of a survey conducted by "China Taiwanese Merchants Development Promotion Commission" that as high as 90 percent of interviewed Taiwanese approve of the direct flight under the precondition of Taiwan's safety being guaranteed, and 48 percent think the sooner, the better.
Chang Hsiao-yen, director of the commission made this remark at a news conference on the morning of May 15.
The survey result shows only 7.76 percent of the interviewed hold an opposite view, and 83. 4 percent agree that the direct flight is beneficial to consultation, reducing hostility and promoting communications across the Straits.
The survey also shows that 57.9 percent of the interviewed propose that the direct navigation between the mainland and Taiwan Island should be achieved through the negotiation of non-governmental organizations and should follow the model of Hong Kong and Macao.
According to Wang Zuorong (Chinese spelling), a former president of the "Control Yuan" present at the conference, the direct flight should be launched immediately in consideration of the interests of all the Chinese people. It's the first step and a key step as well, for the overall economic interchanges between the two sides. The overall economic interchanges will lead to an integrated economy and government as differences gradually diminish and finally die out, he said.
The former president also indicated that the high-tech industries of Taiwan must be linked up with the economy of the mainland as the latter itself is a big market, and only by doing so could the industry in Taiwan be able to compete in the international market.
He stressed that while Taiwan is facing at three major problems, namely economic transition, economic bubble and global recession of economy. TheĦ°three direct linksĦħ and economic communications across the Straits appear to be more urgent and necessary, otherwise the people in Taiwan will be confronted with a hard life in the coming 10 years.
By PD Online staff member Deng Gang
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