(Focus on Strait Forum) Mazu Loves Taiwanese Compatriots on Meizhou Pilgrimage
China News Service, Meizhou Island, Fujian, September 18 (Lin Chunyin, Lin Qunhua) recite Mazu in the morning, listen to slang at night, comb Mazu's head, taste Mazu cake... On the 17th, more than two hundred Taiwanese businessmen and Taiwanese were in the "Hometown of Mazu" Meizhou Island, Putian City, Fujian Province embarked on a study tour with the theme of Mazu beliefs and customs.
The three-day Mazu cultural study activity for Taiwanese businessmen and Taiwan compatriots is being held on Meizhou Island, the first to open the 12th Straits Forum·Mazu Cultural Activity Week.
Affected by the epidemic, the Taiwanese guests who came to the event this year are mainly Taiwanese businessmen and compatriots in the mainland.
Sun Decong, the executive vice president of the National Taiwan Compatriots Investment Enterprise Association and the head of the Tianhou Temple in Kunshan, Jiangsu, led 45 people to experience Mazu's beliefs and customs.
Sun Decong told a reporter from China News Agency that Jiangsu and Fujian are both gathering places for Taiwanese businessmen. In recent years, with the Mazu culture as a link, believers on both sides of the strait have been very close. This time he and Lin Jinzan, chairman of the board of directors of Mazu Temple in Meizhou Worshiping Mazu, Syrian friendship, visiting the ancestral temple, "very happy in my heart."
The eleventh Straits Forum has been successfully held, and the grassroots taste remains undiminished.
Next to the statue of Mazu on the Goosewei Beach on Meizhou Island, Wang Guiming, a 60-year-old Taiwanese farmer, took a group photo with his Taiwanese friend who learned the styling and clairvoyance.
Wang Guiming, who is currently the vice chairman of the Taiwan Compatriots Investment Enterprise Association of Putian City, has been planting sweet persimmons in Putian Xianyou National Taiwan Farmer Pioneer Park for nearly 20 years.
Today, he and other Taiwanese farmers and farmers in the Xianyou Tainong Pioneer Park have grown more than 25,000 acres of Taiwanese sweet persimmons, making Xianyou the largest Taiwanese sweet persimmon base on the mainland.
"In another month, the sweet persimmons will be red. I hope that Putian Global Tourism can bring more tourists to Xianyou and take a tour of the hot sweet persimmon base to the countryside." said Wang Guiming.
Wang Guiming, who has participated in the Strait Forum for 12 consecutive times, told reporters that Xianyou ranked third among the 29 Tainong Pioneer Parks on the mainland. In recent years, more and more Taiwanese businessmen and farmers have expressed their interest in developing Xianyou at the Strait Forum. Hope to wait for more good news on agriculture at the Strait Forum."
Not only to carry out Mazu cultural exchanges, this year’s Mazu Cultural Activity Week also highlights economic and trade integration, and will host the promotion of cross-strait biotechnology and medical and health industry cooperation zones, "Mazu and Health" cross-strait medical seminars, and the signing of cooperation projects in Putai, etc. The event has attracted the attention of Taiwanese businessmen and compatriots.
Cui Liyou, a Taiwanese teacher at the School of Pharmacy and Medical Science and Technology of Putian University, returned to school from Taipei. He had just lifted the quarantine the day before and set foot on Meizhou Island to "see if there are any trends in cross-strait medical cooperation." Cui Liyou has only worked in the mainland for one year and has benefited from 31 measures to benefit Taiwan compatriots and has already obtained the same qualification as a licensed pharmacist. In addition to teaching and research, he also hoped that he would be able to open a "small Taiwanese pharmacy" in the mainland with the help of the Huitai Initiative. (Finish)