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Senior Official Meets Taiwan Press Leaders' Delegation
A senior Chinese mainland official urged press communities on both sides of the Taiwan Straits to make fresh contributions to promoting relations across the straits and advancing the reunification of the motherland by increasing contacts and exchanging more information.
The remark was made by Chen Yunlin, head of the Taiwan Work Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, while meeting with a press leaders' delegation from Taiwan in Beijing Tuesday.
The Chinese mainland has always valued and taken initiatives to advance exchanges between press communities on both sides of the Taiwan Straits, said Chen.
In the past years, there have been ups and downs in press exchanges between the two sides of the Taiwan Straits, but the overall trend is developing forward, Chen said, noting an unbalanced development in the exchange of reporters for the time being.
According to Chen, some 6,000 journalists from Taiwan have come to do reporting on the mainland, while only 300 mainland reporters have been allowed to cover news in Taiwan.
In the meantime, eight Taiwan press organizations have continued to send journalists without interruptions to cover news on the Chinese mainland, but only four mainland press organizations are allowed to open resident reporting centers in Taiwan. Among the four, Xinhua News Agency's normal resident news- gathering in Taiwan has been interrupted with some excuses in the past.
"Such action by the Taiwan authorities is not conducive to a healthy development in the exchange of information across the Taiwan Straits," said Chen, who emphasized that the mainland is sincere in improving relations across the straits.
"The basic reason for the current sustained tension in relations across the Taiwan Straits is that the Taiwan leader has not recognized the 'one-China' principle, and denied the '1992 consensus'", Chen went on to say.
He reiterated that the "One-China" policy, which is available in relevant regulations and policy documents of the Taiwan authorities, is not forced on the Taiwan authorities by the central government single-handedly.
With the prerequisite of recognizing the "one-China" principle, all issues can be discussed, said Chen, urging the realization of direct shipping, mail and trade across the Taiwan Straits as early as possible by removing man-made barriers.
The official added that the introduction of a federal system in China is not supported by the central government.
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