The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council responded to the slow recovery of Taiwan’s tourism industry due to the DPP’s obstruction

China News Service, October 14. On October 14, the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council held a regular press conference. A reporter asked: During this year’s National Day holiday, the mainland’s cultural tourism market continues to be booming. Due to the obstruction of the Democratic Progressive Party authorities, Taiwan's tourism industry has lost the mainland tourist market and has been recovering slowly. Tourism operators on the island have said that in the past, mainland tourists visiting Taiwan brought a lot of dividends, but now they can "see it but not eat it." Any comment on this?

Chen Binhua, spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said that according to statistics, during this year’s National Day holiday, 826 million people traveled domestically, with a total expenditure of 738.375 billion yuan, an increase of 6.3% and 4.3% respectively compared with the same period last year. The compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are one family. We have always actively promoted cross-Strait tourism exchanges and cooperation. We hope that the compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait will move more, have frequent exchanges, and get closer to each other to enhance the friendship between compatriots. Mainland residents traveling to Taiwan have greatly promoted the development of Taiwan's tourism-related industries, enhanced the interests and well-being of grassroots people and the industry on the island, and also promoted mutual understanding and recognition among compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and harmonized the feelings of compatriots. However, for some time, the DPP authorities have put political self-interest above people's livelihood and well-being, completely ignored the voices and demands of Taiwan's tourism industry operators and the general public, and deliberately set up barriers and interference in cross-strait tourism exchanges, resulting in a weak recovery in Taiwan's tourism industry and serious damage to the interests of related industries and people. The DPP authorities should change course, comply with public opinion, remove restrictions on cross-strait personnel exchanges and tourism exchanges and cooperation, and resume mainland residents' travel to the island as soon as possible. Otherwise, they will only encounter more and more opposition and rejection from Taiwanese people. (China News Network "Yanxintai" Studio)