China News Service, Beijing, November 4 (Reporters Li Baijia and Xu Xueying) The 9th China International Import Expo will open in Shanghai on the 5th. Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said that more than 30 companies in Taiwan participated in this CIIE, with a booth area of about 4,200 square meters, covering multiple industrial fields such as food and daily chemicals, consumer goods, medical and health, precision manufacturing, and modern services.
The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council held a regular press conference in Beijing on the 4th. When answering questions, Zhu Fenglian said that more Taiwanese businesses and enterprises are welcome to make full use of the important platform of the CIIE to promote their products, expand the mainland's domestic demand market, actively integrate into the new development pattern, and work with mainland compatriots to create and share the fruits of Chinese-style modern development.
A reporter asked about the "Notice on Further Improving the Level of Trade Liberalization and Facilitation in the Hainan Free Trade Port" jointly issued by the Ministry of Commerce, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and the General Administration of Customs, and whether Taiwanese businesses and enterprises should apply the relevant policies.
"The majority of Taiwanese compatriots and Taiwanese enterprises can fully share the dividends of relevant policies." Zhu Fenglian said, hoping that Taiwanese businessmen and enterprises can seize development opportunities and participate in the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port.
In the first three quarters of this year, mainland China's imports of fishery products from Taiwan increased by 35.5% year-on-year. Taking grouper as an example, Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council said that it will not be easy to increase exports in the future, "unless there are special political purchases."
Zhu Fenglian responded by pointing out that the mainland is the main engine of global economic growth and has a stable, open and large-scale market that can fully accommodate more agricultural and fishery products from Taiwan. The DPP authorities have neither the intention nor the ability to solve the practical problems of Taiwan's agricultural and fishery workers. Instead, they continue to set up obstacles and pour cold water on cross-Strait agricultural and fishery cooperation, fully revealing that they ignore people's livelihood interests and welfare and only have political self-interest at heart. They will definitely be opposed by Taiwan compatriots.
Regarding Taiwan's economic authorities' recent announcement that they are considering restricting the export of high-end chips to mainland China and other places, Zhu Fenglian said that out of political self-interest, the Democratic Progressive Party authorities obstructed and restricted the normal market operations of enterprises and pressured advantaged enterprises to transfer production capacity abroad. This harmed Taiwan's industry and the Taiwanese people.
"The mainland is committed to self-reliance and self-reliance in science and technology, and any blockade and containment can never suppress our development and progress." She said that strengthening cooperation between cross-strait enterprises in semiconductor and other fields is the right path to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results. "We will comply with the calls of the industrial circles on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, create better conditions for cross-Strait industrial cooperation, and continue to welcome and support Taiwan-related enterprises to invest, develop, and innovate in the mainland."
