China News Service, Xiamen, July 9 (Reporter Lin Chunyin) Fujian and Taiwan are geographically close and blood relatives, and the long-term exchanges and integration have left a deep common memory.

On the 9th, one of the important projects of the 14th Straits Forum, "Common Home and Common Memory - Archives and Documents Exhibition of Fujian-Taiwan Relations" was held in Jimei Tower, Xiamen.

  The State Archives Administration and the National Taiwan Federation are the guiding units of the "Common Homeland and Common Memory - Fujian-Taiwan Relations Archives and Documents Exhibition", and the Fujian Provincial Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Office, the Fujian Provincial Archives Bureau, the Xiamen Municipal Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Office, and the Xiamen Municipal Archives Bureau are the supporting units. The First Historical Archives of China, the Fujian Provincial Archives, the Fujian Provincial Taiwan Federation, and the Xiamen Municipal Archives are the organizers, and the Jimei District People's Government of Xiamen City is the undertaker.

  The exhibition selects nearly 400 precious archives and documents such as decrees and memorials, with the theme of "Building a Common Home in Fujian and Taiwan, and Retaining Common Memory of the People on Both Sides of the Strait". The five parts, including exchange and integration, reproduce the real history between Fujian and Taiwan since the Ming and Qing dynasties, deepen the compatriots on both sides of the strait's correct understanding of the historical origins of Fujian and Taiwan, further enhance the identity of Chinese culture, and promote the spiritual harmony of compatriots on both sides of the strait and the integrated development of both sides of the strait.

After the opening ceremony, leading guests and representatives of Taiwan compatriots and Taiwan businessmen and Taiwan youth visited the exhibition.

Photo by Lin Zhijie

  At the launching ceremony, Huang Zhixian, secretary of the party group and chairman of the National Taiwan Federation, said in his speech that Fujian and Taiwan face each other across the sea and share the same roots. They are the main ancestral places of 23 million Taiwan compatriots. The ancestors are the same, the language is the same, the tune is the same, the customs are the same, and the food is the same. Fujian has a natural advantage in exploring a new road for cross-strait integration and development.

"Common Home and Common Memory - Fujian-Taiwan Relations Archives and Documents Exhibition" is a concentrated display of the results of the archives and documents work of "Relocation to Taiwan".

I hope to strengthen publicity, expand influence, and continue to make greater efforts to promote the integration and development of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and promote the spiritual harmony of compatriots.

  Xie Jinwei, deputy director of the State Archives Administration and deputy director of the Central Archives, pointed out in his speech that the Fujian archives department has included five key tasks in the "14th Five-Year Plan" of Fujian Province, including "relocation memory" archives, overseas Chinese batch archives, and electronic archives management. Planning is the starting point, consolidating the business foundation and the overall situation of the service center, and achieving remarkable results, and various tasks are at the forefront of the country.

In particular, based on regional characteristics, give full play to resource advantages, seize important historical nodes, strengthen coordination and cooperation with Taiwan-related departments, and diversify the development of Fujian-Taiwan relations archives and documents, so that the "Fujian-Taiwan Relations Archives and Documents Exhibition" has become a brand feature of Fujian archives departments. Promote the exchange and integration of Fujian and Taiwan, and the spiritual harmony of compatriots on both sides of the strait.

  Xie Jinwei expressed the hope that Fujian will take this as a new starting point to continue to do a good job in the collection and development of archives and documents of "Relocation to Taiwan", and further exert the archives work in promoting the continuation of Fujian and Taiwan's family and nostalgia, intensifying cultural exchanges between the ancestral land, and helping the integration and development of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. The basic supporting role will continue to make greater efforts to promote the integration and development of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and promote the spiritual harmony of compatriots.

  Yuan Yi, member of the party group and deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Fujian Provincial People's Congress, said that Fujian and Taiwan are connected by water. The relationship between the two places has a long history, close geographical proximity, blood ties, and deep cultural ties. The unique location advantage gives Fujian the importance of first-in-test with Taiwan. mission.

The province has accelerated the construction of the first home for Taiwan compatriots and Taiwan enterprises to land, and has achieved positive results in promoting the integrated development of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.

Cultural resources and cultural parks all over Fujian, such as Minnan culture, Mazu culture, shipping culture, Hakka culture, Zhuzi culture, etc., are important carriers and platforms for cultural exchanges with Taiwan. Interrupted, leaving behind many valuable historical archives and documents.

  Yuan Yi emphasized that it is necessary to deeply develop and utilize the archives resources, speed up the informatization construction of documents and archives, and further build the "Cloud Archives and Archives" to fully demonstrate the historical origins of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, so that Taiwan compatriots who come to visit will enhance their sense of identity with the mainland of the motherland. Enhance the spiritual harmony of compatriots on both sides of the strait and make new and greater contributions to promoting the integration and development of the two sides of the strait.

  After the opening ceremony, leading guests and representatives of Taiwan compatriots and Taiwan businessmen and Taiwan youth visited the exhibition.

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