(Focus on Straits Forum) Taiwan research experts say "the current situation": young people on both sides of the strait should not be "strawberry people", "lying people", "gnawing the old people"
China News Service, Xiamen, July 12 (Reporter Long Min) Facing the complex situation of the century-old changing situation and the intertwined epidemic situation of the century, Li Peng, a well-known Taiwan research expert and director of the Taiwan Research Institute of Xiamen University, held a speech at the 20th Straits Youth Forum on the 12th. The above calls on young people on both sides of the strait not to be "strawberry people", "lying people" and "gnawing old people".
This year marks the 35th anniversary of cross-strait exchanges.
Li Peng said that although the situation on both sides of the strait has changed, the temporal and spatial background of cross-strait relations has undergone great changes, but what remains unchanged is the desire of compatriots on both sides of the strait to communicate.
"The Straits Youth Forum will be held as scheduled, and will continue to build a platform for cross-strait youth exchanges. There are feelings, perseverance, and responsibility in this."
"The time and trend of the complete reunification of the motherland is always on our side." Li Peng pointed out that the current promotion of national reunification has entered a new era and a new stage. Today, the mainland is unprecedented in both the ability to promote reunification and the will to achieve reunification.
"Achieving national reunification has become an unavoidable, irreversible and irreversible trend."
At present, the century-old changes and the epidemic of the century have brought huge challenges to the development of the mainland, and economic and social development has encountered temporary difficulties.
Li Peng said that whether to lose confidence and blame others, or to overcome difficulties and forge ahead, has become a problem that must be faced by young people on both sides of the strait.
"The development history of the Chinese nation for thousands of years shows that there is no hurdle that we cannot overcome, and there is no river that cannot be crossed."
Facing the young people from both sides of the strait, Li Peng pointed out that opportunities and challenges have always coexisted.
"To prove that our parents have the ability to start a business, we have the ability to keep the business, and we can also carry forward the business."
The latest popular among Taiwanese youths is "I am in reunification, I am in rejuvenation", Li Peng said frankly "very touched".
He said, how arrogant, how domineering, how atmospheric.
Taiwanese youth must first participate, gain in participation, and recognize in obtaining, and finally share the pride of national strength and national rejuvenation.
"For compatriots on both sides of the strait, creating a better life and living a good life is the common aspiration and goal." Li Peng pointed out that this is also our answer to the question of "what is the benefit of reunification" that Taiwan compatriots care about, that is, reunification can make Taiwanese people live a better life and have a better life.
Therefore, for the mainland of the motherland, it is the responsibility and obligation to make Taiwanese youths and Taiwan compatriots who study, work, and start businesses in the mainland live a good life.
"Under the guidance of the central government's policy toward Taiwan and the new era's overall strategy for solving the Taiwan issue, I believe that Taiwanese youths will have a better life in the mainland, and cross-strait youth exchanges will become more and more effective." Li Peng suggested that focusing on a better life, Step by step to promote the peaceful development of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the reunification of the motherland.
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