Minister of Labor Hong Shenhan will go to Nanjing to attend the APEC Mainland Affairs Council: It must be approved by the Joint Review Committee

Minister of Labor Hong Shenhan will attend the APEC Ministerial Meeting in Nanjing in late September. The media is concerned about whether Hong Shenhan’s trip to China as Minister of Labor should be approved by the Joint Review Committee? Do I need to log in to the "China Exchange Information Disclosure Area"? Mainland Affairs Council spokesman Liang Wenjie responded today that Minister Hong Shenhan must apply to go to China and must obtain the approval of the Joint Review Committee. This procedure is necessary.

The APEC Leaders' Summit will be held in Shenzhen, China, in November. The Human Resources Development Ministers' Meeting will first be held in Nanjing from September 22 to 24. Hong Shenhan will attend the Ministers' Meeting in person, becoming the first ministerial official to go to China during the Lai administration.

As for Hong Shenhan, should he enter China with an invitation letter, or must he use a Taiwan Compatriot Permit to enter China? Chen Binhua, spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of China, pointed out yesterday that the situation must be handled in accordance with the "one-China principle" and the provisions and practices of the relevant APEC memorandum of understanding, and this is also the case this year.

Liang Wenjie said at the Mainland Affairs Council press conference that Minister Hong Shenhan must apply to go to China and must obtain the approval of the Joint Review Committee. This procedure is necessary. Since this year, many APEC meetings have been held, and each one follows the same procedure.

Liang Wenjie explained that one is the "Exchange Information Disclosure Area for Travel to China." The media may have misunderstood. That public area is used by the Ministry of the Interior for religious people's groups to log in, and is not for public agencies to log in to China on official business, so the two are not the same thing.