China News Service, Zhangzhou, February 12th, title: Taiwanese business families celebrate the New Year in Fujian: a warm heart in an online furnace
China News Agency reporter Zhang Jinchuan
"Happy New Year, everything goes well! Cheers..."
On the 11th, at 6 o’clock in the evening on New Year’s Day, Taiwanese businessmen Zeng Wenzi and his family opened their “different” reunion dinner in the mainland, and communicated New Year’s wishes with their relatives and friends in Taiwan through video connections, and together “online the stove” .
Zeng Wenzi is currently the deputy general manager of Fujian Zhangpu Cailuhua Cosmetics Co., Ltd. She has been investing in mainland China for 24 years and continuing to cultivate her "beauty business".
Today, her husband, younger brother, son, and daughter-in-law are also involved.
On February 11, at exactly six o'clock in the evening on the Lunar New Year's Day, Taiwanese businessman Zeng Wenzi and his family opened their "different" reunion dinner in the mainland.
Photo by Zhang Jinchuan
"It is a traditional Chinese custom to have reunion dinner on New Year's Eve, and family reunion is very important." Zeng Wenzi said in an interview with a reporter from China News Agency. In 1997, she and her husband Wu Xiqi came to Zhangzhou, Fujian from Changhua, Taiwan to start a business.
In the past ten years, I will go home for the Spring Festival. Although I have not been able to go home during the epidemic this year, I feel more cordial and heart-warming in this way!
“Mainland’s New Year’s Eve reunion meal is similar to Taiwan’s, with chicken, duck, seafood, etc.” Wu Xiqi introduced a table of hearty New Year’s Eve dinner to reporters. He also specifically mentioned a dish "Red Sturgeon Rice Cake", "This dish is customary in southern Fujian. China means a bumper harvest in the coming year!"
The family of Taiwanese businessman Zeng Wenzi and his relatives and friends in Taiwan communicated New Year's wishes with each other through video connection, and together "online the furnace".
Photo by Zhang Jinchuan
Recalling the entrepreneurial experience in mainland China, and finally settled the "beautiful factory" in Zhangpu County, the couple couldn't do without feeling, "The language and culture here are similar to Taiwan, and I feel warm."
What makes Zeng Wenzi feel particularly heartwarming is the care and support of local government departments to Taiwanese businessmen and Taiwanese enterprises under the epidemic, "The two sides of the strait should be closer together!"
The family of Taiwanese businessman Zeng Wenzi and his relatives and friends in Taiwan communicated New Year's wishes with each other through video connection, and together "online the furnace".
Photo by Zhang Jinchuan
Zeng Wenzi said that before the Spring Festival holiday, she also gave each employee two pots of "pineapple flowers" (also known as "lucky flowers") imported from Taiwan, a Spring Festival gift box and 50 masks, "let every employee Feel warm."
"Zhangpu is rich in products, and the eating habits of southern Fujian and Taiwan are very similar. It feels like a hometown in the Chinese New Year!" Chen Lihua is Zeng Wenzi's daughter-in-law. In her opinion, she used to go back to her natal family on the second day of the New Year. We are now advocating New Year's greetings on WeChat and the Internet is very convenient.
Taiwanese businessman Zeng Wenzi gave his grandson a New Year red envelope.
Photo by Zhang Jinchuan
In addition to the main business of beauty and skin care, Zeng Wenzi and his wife also founded a pineapple farm.
Zeng Wenzi’s younger brother Zeng Yingxuan also came to Zhangpu in 2018 to expand eco-agriculture with his sister and brother-in-law. This is his first New Year in the mainland. “I have been in the mainland for three years and I am very used to living here.”
Affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic last year, Zeng Wen's subsidiary products entered the mainland market faster.
Nowadays, expanding "micro-business", e-commerce sales...expanding domestic sales has become a new territory for her family to expand "beautiful business".
Wu Xiqi, the husband of Taiwanese businessman Zeng Wenzi, has a video link with his Taiwanese friends to pay a New Year greeting.
Photo by Zhang Jinchuan
"The mainland market is vast. Affected by the epidemic last year, the company's products are shifting from export to domestic sales." Zeng Wenzi said.
Speaking of the future, the new year plans to do a good job in the design of the tourist factory and the interior environment, and at the same time integrate it with the "pineapple cake" food industry.
Zhangzhou City is the main ancestral home of Taiwan compatriots and a gathering area for Taiwanese investment.
On the eve of the Spring Festival, the Zhangzhou Taiwanese Investment Enterprise Association also advocated that Taiwanese companies in Zhangzhou and their members and their families spend the Spring Festival in Zhangzhou, and persuaded relatives and friends from other places to reduce the flow of personnel during the Spring Festival this year.
"Many of the compatriots in Zhangzhou and Taiwan have responded to the local New Year call, and most of them are staying in Zhangzhou for the New Year for the first time." Lin Boyan, chairman of the Taiwanese Investment Enterprise Association of Zhangzhou City, told reporters that Zhang and Taiwan have a blood relationship and their living habits are almost the same. , "We feel the same as Taiwan, but the new year and human touch are stronger here."
Lin Boyan said that Zhangzhou is working hard to create a pioneering area for the integration of Fujian and Taiwan. It has become a gathering place for Taiwanese enterprises and a hot spot for Taiwanese entrepreneurs. It has attracted many Taiwanese and Taiwanese businessmen to display their talents and realize their dreams. "This is our livable place. ."(Finish)