China News Agency, Beijing, January 22, title: Taiwanese businessmen return home for the New Year: tell stories about hard work, and look forward to spring blossoms
Author Zhu He
With the adjustment of cross-strait epidemic prevention measures, many Taiwanese businessmen who have worked hard in the mainland have returned to Taiwan for the New Year holiday this year.
Taste the long-lost hometown taste, accompany the elders to buy new year's goods, and have dinner with old friends... Many Taiwanese businessmen were interviewed by reporters from China News Agency and said that they filled their suitcases with the intentions for relatives and friends in their hometown, and brought them with them There is also the harvest in the mainland. In the atmosphere of reunion, the family looks forward to the warmth of the new year.
Li Shaohua: Connect the love between the two sides of the strait with dim sum
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Li Shaohua, the owner of the "Rainbow Angel Cafe" in Beijing, and his family put on festive red clothes and brought various gifts from Taipei to their hometown in Kaohsiung to pay New Year's greetings to their elders.
Chatting with his family around the fire and reliving the taste of the New Year in Taiwan, Li Shaoyu told the story of working hard in the mainland this year.
In 2022, the coffee house where Li Shaoyu works, with hearing-impaired bakers as the main employees, will usher in many new changes: the skills of the hearing-impaired chefs will continue to improve, and more dessert categories will be developed; Provide public welfare support, and also pay attention to the growth of hearing-impaired masters.
In the suitcase returning home, Li Shaoyu filled it with snacks from the coffee shop, which she considered "the most precious, warm and real New Year gift".
Walking on the streets of Taipei and seeing many old-fashioned shops closed due to the epidemic, Li Shaoyu felt that the appearance of her hometown was "a bit vague"; reuniting with her long-lost old friends made her regain her old sense of familiarity.
"Many caring people in Taiwan have never been to the mainland, but they have always cared about the coffee house." Li Shaoyu said that a grandmother in her 80s came to meet her and expressed her willingness to contribute to the coffee house; The story of the house, specializing in downloading mainland social software.
Li Shaohua looks forward to continuing to stick to the original intention of establishing a coffee house and connect more cross-strait love.
Xu Tao: The company has gone through a difficult time
"Northern drifting family" Taiqing Xu Tao returned to Taipei before the Spring Festival. "This year, I will be able to reunite with my family as soon as I land this year. I feel that the atmosphere of reunion is particularly strong."
During the New Year’s Eve dinner, Xu Tao and his family watched the Spring Festival Gala in Mainland China; when he visited relatives and friends on the second and third day of the first lunar month, he planned to share the special products and new achievements in entrepreneurship he brought from Beijing.
In 2022, the online appointment work platform founded by Xu Tao and his mainland partners successfully obtained financing and expanded his business from Beijing to Shanghai, Shenzhen and other places. He said, "Although the company has been affected by the epidemic, it has gone through difficult times. I am confident about the future."
This Spring Festival, the platform resumed its previous busyness.
Xu Tao said that in just three days of New Year's Day in 2023, the platform's order volume has doubled that of December last year, "to a certain extent, it reflects the vitality of the offline consumer market and demonstrates the resilience of the mainland economy."
One week before returning to his hometown, Xu Tao visited four provinces in the mainland to prepare for the establishment of branches in various places in the New Year.
He said that being able to provide flexible jobs in the process of economic recovery in the mainland, he felt that he had made a small contribution, "a particularly sense of accomplishment and participation."
Chen Shengru: Witness the changes in the concept of old-age care
Returning to his hometown in Yunlin with the Beijing Winter Olympics mascot "Bingdundun" and the special edition "Rabbit Dundun" for the Year of the Rabbit, Chen Shengru, a young Taiwanese, was a little timid, "looking forward to but also a little scared"; Grandpa called out his nickname in Hokkien, and warmth surged in his heart.
Growing up with his elders, Chen Shengru has a natural closeness to the elders.
Now he has been engaged in the elderly care industry in Yanqing, Beijing for five years, and the five elderly care stations he works in have won the star rating of Beijing.
Visiting villages on the outskirts of Beijing, he taught the elders in the village to send and receive couriers and make video calls, "really feeling integrated into the local area."
"I used to think about copying Taiwan's old-age care concept to the mainland, but later found that the needs vary from person to person." Chen Shengru said that the rapid development of the mainland's economy, intelligence and networking have accelerated the personalization of people's needs, and everyone pays more attention to living a healthy, healthy life. Live quality.
Looking back on the New Year’s Eve in the mainland, in addition to experiencing northern New Year customs such as eating dumplings, Chen Shengru will also video-connect with family members on the other side of the strait, meet in the “cloud” to drink, and share interesting life stories. Change".
Now facing the dough circle, Chen Shengru plans to temporarily put down work and concentrate on being with grandpa and grandma.
Speaking of New Year's wishes, Chen Shengru hopes that more people will come out of the house, "Whether young or old, traveling or picking, in short, we must warmly embrace the coming spring."
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