One year ago, General Secretary Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the 15th Straits Forum, placing high hopes on the Straits Forum to expand cross-Strait people-to-people exchanges and deepen cross-Strait integrated development. In April this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping focused on the overall interests and long-term well-being of the Chinese nation, and delivered an important speech focusing on grasping the overall situation of cross-Strait relations and jointly creating a bright future for motherland reunification and national rejuvenation, pointing out the direction for the development of cross-Strait relations and peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.
The 16th Straits Forum covers 50 activities in the forum conference and four major sections: grassroots exchanges, youth exchanges, cultural exchanges, and economic exchanges. It has received an enthusiastic response from the majority of Taiwan compatriots. A total of more than 7,000 people came across the sea from Taiwan’s political party representatives, organizer representatives, industry representatives, heads of associations, and guests from various sectors including workers, youth, women, science, education, culture and health, agriculture, forestry, water conservancy, and folk beliefs. Facts have fully proved that deepening cross-Strait exchanges, cooperation and integrated development are in the common interests of compatriots on both sides. No one can stop compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait from pursuing a better life.
Compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are one family whose blood is thicker than water. We should visit each other frequently and get close to each other. However, the DPP authorities rely on foreign self-respect and are willing to be slaves. They go against the trend and go against the will of the people, obstructing and restricting cross-strait exchanges and cooperation in every possible way. When Lai Ching-te took office as the leader of Taiwan on May 20 this year, he launched an out-and-out "Taiwan Independence Confession", seriously provoking the one-China principle and seriously undermining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.
The green mountains cannot cover it, and it will flow eastward after all. Today, various cross-Strait exchange activities, including the Strait Forum, continue to be active, and new and old friends from both sides of the Strait gather together to have warm exchanges and deepen friendship. All this fully demonstrates that the DPP authorities’ “green terror” and obstructionist restrictions are completely unpopular. Lai Ching-te and the Democratic Progressive Party authorities are betrayers of the mainstream public opinion on the island and destroyers of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and the region. They will ultimately bring serious disasters to Taiwan compatriots. National reunification is a historical necessity for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. We have the firm will, full confidence, and strong capabilities to smash any separatist plot for "Taiwan independence" and protect the common home of the Chinese nation.
Chinese-style modernization is a bright future shared by compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Straits. We always have the well-being of our Taiwan compatriots in mind, and we take the lead in sharing the opportunities for Chinese-style modernization development with our Taiwan compatriots, as well as the fruits of development and progress on the mainland of the motherland. We will continue to highlight the "non-governmental, grassroots and broad-based" positioning of the Straits Forum, get closer to the needs and lives of compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and actively do practical things, do good things, and solve problems for Taiwan compatriots, so that Taiwan compatriots will benefit more and benefit more. , the future is better.
Good luck to the youth on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and the future of both sides of the Taiwan Strait will be better. At this Straits Youth Forum, many Taiwanese young people shared with the participants their feelings about coming to the mainland to work, live and communicate. They witnessed the prosperity of the mainland, were attracted by the development opportunities, started their own businesses, and gained a happy life. We welcome young people from Taiwan to come to the mainland to pursue, build, and realize their dreams, and we will continue to create better conditions and more opportunities for young people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to grow, become talented, and succeed. Young people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait should have more contacts, exchanges, and heart-to-heart conversations, understand the general trend of history, adhere to national justice, bravely shoulder the great responsibilities of the times, and contribute their youthful power to the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
A journey to the great road is what the people want. A strong and unified country has always been the destiny of all Chinese people, including Taiwan compatriots. Compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Straits long for peace and tranquility in their homes and harmonious coexistence with their families.The sons and daughters of the Chinese nation at home and abroad must adhere to the "1992 Consensus" that embodies the one-China principle, resolutely oppose "Taiwan independence" separatist actions and interference from external forces, firmly control the fate of the Chinese nation in the hands of the Chinese people themselves, and firmly protect the common homeland of the Chinese nation, Work together to create the long-lasting well-being of the Chinese nation, forge a solid sense of community for the Chinese nation, and jointly promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
(CCTV commentator)
