Sun Yat-sen's great-grandson Wang Zhixiong: The return journey of both sides of the Taiwan Strait lies in Mr. Sun Yat-sen's long-cherished wish for reunification

China News Service, Shanghai, November 13 (Fan Yubin) Wang Zhixiong, Sun Yat-sen's great-grandson, said at the "Sun Yat-sen and Shanghai United Front" symposium held in Shanghai on the 13th that as a descendant of Mr. Sun Yat-sen and a descendant of Yan and Huang, he had set foot on Taiwan many times. Every time I walk on the streets of Taipei, I look at the road and memorial hall named after "Zhongshan" and see the Taiwanese compatriots bowing in front of the bronze statue, and I feel a mixture of emotions and warmth in my heart. This land still echoes the cry of the ancestors to "revitalize China", which also makes him more and more convinced that the return journey of both sides of the Taiwan Straits lies in Sun Yat-sen's words, "'Reunification' is the hope of all Chinese people."

Wang Zhixiong believes that the Sun Yat-sen spirit is the greatest common denominator within Taiwanese society that has not been completely eradicated by "de-Sinicization". He also said that he had also witnessed a sad aspect: some forces on the island deliberately downplayed Sun Yat-sen's dying cry of "peace, struggle, and save China" and even avoided his declaration in 1912 - "If China cannot regain Taiwan, it will not be able to stand on the earth."

"The Democratic Progressive Party authorities have tried their best to cut off the historical connection between Taiwan and the mainland, but family history, family letters, and genealogy are always inseparable." Wang Zhixiong said that during the root-searching activities of Sun Yat-sen's relatives and descendants, nearly a hundred descendants of the Sun family scattered around the world returned to Zhongshan Cuiheng. The younger generation stood in front of their ancestral home and truly understood the meaning of "roots." Wang Zhixiong proposed that this model of family roots can be extended to all clans in Taiwan, allowing the answer to "who am I" to return to its historical origins.

He called for using various Sun Yat-sen commemorative activities as a platform to continue to expand cross-strait grassroots exchanges. "Sun Yat-sen is the only undisputed greatest common denominator between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. We should make good use of the Sun family's descendants and the clan network to promote the friendship and exchanges between the Sun family clan and relatives of all ethnic groups in Taiwan, and serve as a lubricant for cross-strait people-to-people exchanges."

Wang Zhixiong said that Sun Yat-sen worked hard all his life and never forgot "peace, struggle and saving China" until his death. Today's China is no longer the poor and weak country it was a century ago. However, many Taiwan compatriots are still deceived by the lie of "Taiwan independence." As a descendant of Sun Yat-sen, he made an appeal in the name of his family: "The return journey of both sides of the Taiwan Strait is contained in the unquenchable ideals of Mr. Sun Yat-sen and is rooted in the blood of the Chinese people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait."