China News Service, Hengshui, November 4 (Reporter Li Qian) November 4 coincides with the nineteenth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, and the three characters "nine", "long" and "wine" are homophones.
More than 20 media professionals from both sides of the strait drank the old wine that means "long time" in Hengshui, Hebei.
This time, the head of Taiwan’s media delegation, 61-year-old Wu Ruihao, executive director of the Mainland Affairs Office of Taiwan’s United Daily News, drank five glasses of wine in a row. “I hope that cross-strait relations will be like this old wine.
The third "Journey for Beauty-Hebei Tour of Cross-Strait Media" co-sponsored by the Taiwan Work Office of the CPC Hebei Provincial Committee and the Taiwan Work Office of Hengshui, Xingtai and Handan opened on the 3rd.
More than 20 media professionals from both sides of the strait went to Hengshui, Xingtai, Handan and other places for interactive exchanges.
On the 4th, media professionals from both sides of the strait visited the production process of Hengshui Laobaigan, one of Hebei's famous wines.
In 2017, in order to fulfill his father's wish, Han Bosheng, a Taiwan compatriot who was over seventy years old, made a special trip to Hengshui from Taiwan. Through a donation, he returned to Hengshui's homeland of a distillery and old house in Hengshui Laobaigan Winery.
Wu Ruihao learned of the past through the visit, took the information with his mobile phone, and lamented that the blood of the family relationship between the two sides of the strait is thicker than water.
Wu Ruihao, who officially came to the mainland in 2012, has traveled to 28 provinces and cities in the mainland.
He said that when he first came to the mainland, he most sighed about the prosperity of Shanghai, but what he sighed most now is that the once poor places in the mainland have become prosperous.
According to Wu Ruihao's memory, when he first came to the mainland, it took at least a week to go to Guizhou. At that time, the mountain roads were particularly difficult to walk, and time was spent on the road.
Nowadays, all counties in Guizhou and even many townships have high-speed connections, and now it takes 5 days to complete the previous 15-day trip.
Wu Ruihao said that the convenience of the Internet has enabled more people to see the real mainland, and the comprehensive and rapid development of the mainland has also given many Taiwanese youths see the space and hope for development.
In the past, young people from Taiwan rushed to the first-tier cities when they came to the mainland. Today, many young people from Taiwan choose to go to the second-tier cities and even the so-called remote areas in the past.
"During the epidemic, the mainland is capable of responding very well." Wu Ruihao said that the new crown pneumonia epidemic has not yet completely ended, and many exchanges can only be carried out online. This trip is not easy.
Now that the mainland has formed a mature mechanism for the prevention and control of the epidemic, he is very confident in the prevention and control of the mainland and the future economic and social development.
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