(New Year's visit to the grassroots) Taiwanese compatriots staying in Zhejiang for the New Year: "Second Hometown" has a strong New Year

　　China News Service, Taizhou, February 10 (Reporter Fan Yubin) "I have been in Xianju, Taizhou, Zhejiang for 8 years. This is already my'second hometown'. This year I will stay in'Zhejiang' to celebrate the New Year. Feel the joy and auspiciousness of the Spring Festival with everyone.” Shang Yunan from Yonghe, New Taipei, Taiwan happily made a plan for the Spring Festival-to take her daughter to Xianju to celebrate the New Year, and eat with other Taiwanese and Taiwanese businessmen who stayed in Taizhou on New Year’s Eve. New Year's Eve dinner.

　　Due to the cross-strait prevention and control measures for the new crown pneumonia epidemic, a large number of Taiwan compatriots, like Shang Yunan, decided to stay in Zhejiang for the New Year this year.

　　As a member of Taiwanese compatriots who stayed in Zhejiang for the New Year, Wang Jiahao from Kaohsiung, Taiwan also chose to stay in Xianju for the New Year.

He said: "The company prepared a New Year's Eve dinner for us, and the local government sent a new year gift package, which made me feel the warmth of home. I think it is very good here. I hope that more Taiwanese youth will come here to start businesses and find jobs ."

　　The regret of not being able to reunite with relatives and friends in Taiwan, and the calmness of celebrating the New Year in the mainland are the common feelings of many Taiwan compatriots.

The Taiwan Affairs Office of Xianju County, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province launched a heart-warming condolences and blessing activities.

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　　"My family is in Taiwan, so I go back to visit every year. I haven't been back for almost a year since the outbreak." Jiang Guanyi from Nantou, Taiwan also decided to stay in Xianju for the New Year. He said frankly, "Although I miss it very much. For my family in Taiwan, a safe Chinese New Year is more important. I hope that the epidemic will end soon and I can be reunited with my family as soon as possible."

　　Zhang Jiaxuan, a dance teacher at Wenzhou University’s Conservatory of Music, spent the first Chinese New Year in Wenzhou. He missed his family on the other side of the strait very much and felt very lucky.

She said: "The staff of the Wenzhou Taiwan Youth Entrepreneurship and Employment Service Center often greeted me, and the students also spent a lot of thought to accompany me, which made me feel at home in Wenzhou."

　　In order to minimize the homesickness of Taiwanese compatriots and Taiwanese businessmen, for the past few days, many places in Zhejiang have sent "heart-warming gift packages" to Taiwanese compatriots.

　　The staff of the Taiwan Affairs Office of Xianju County visited the Taiwan compatriots and Taiwanese businessmen in Xianju, gave New Year gift packages, exchanged New Year plans, sent holiday greetings to relatives in Taiwan through them, and hanged red with Taiwan compatriots. Lanterns and couplets are posted to experience traditional customs.

　　Ningbo City will organize New Year greetings and blessings "cloud" interactions, and encourage compatriots in Ningbo to conduct "Mobile Video New Year Greetings", "WeChat Red Packets", "Cloud Sacrifices", and "Cross-Strait Compatriots Online Long-distance Running to Celebrate the New Year" through online platforms.

It is reported that the number of Taiwan compatriots in Ningbo this year reached more than 1,300, accounting for 67% of the permanent residents of Taiwan compatriots in Ningbo.

　　Jiaxing City sent more than 700 Taiwanese compatriots who stayed in Jiaxing for the New Year to cheer on traffic, open public cultural venues free of charge, enjoy the Jiahe scenic spot, share public transportation, medical service green channel and rights protection hotline, and other "six major service packages".

　　It is true that the place is also hometown.

In recent years, there have been more and more favorable Taiwan policies on the mainland, which has also allowed more Taiwan compatriots to enjoy the same treatment locally.

　　Chinese New Year in situ is not monotonous. Jiang Guanyi mentioned that Xianju County issued 29 Huitai policies last year, which stated that Taiwanese who work and live in Xianju can visit 4A-level scenic spots above Shenxianju and other counties for free.

He plans to take advantage of the opportunity of the festival to go to Shenxianju and other scenic spots.

　　In addition, there are also Taiwan compatriots who choose to go to the mainland to celebrate the New Year.

Taiwanese compatriot Dong Daoxing has recently "flighted" from Taiwan to Linhai, Zhejiang. After completing the isolation observation, he will take over the new job at Taizhou Hospital on the fifth day of the first month.

This is his first Chinese New Year celebration. In the next three years, he will complete related scientific research projects in Linhai.

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