(New Year's news) Compatriots on both sides of the strait "cloud New Year greetings" become a trend, conveying wishes for exchanges in blessings
China News Agency, Beijing, January 27th (Zhu He) "May the spring on both sides of the strait be warm and the flowers bloom, hope that the two sides will have a bright future together, and look forward to the early gathering of people on both sides of the strait..." In the Spring Festival of the Year of the Rabbit, people from all walks of life on both sides of the strait sent a video message to their compatriots New Year's greetings have become a trend, and compatriots convey their blessings in their New Year's greetings, expressing their wishes for resuming exchanges and sharing reunion.
Over the past few days, the topic of "Chinese New Year greetings from compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait" has been hotly discussed on mainland social media, and as of the 27th, it has received more than 120 million views.
Some netizens said that they saw "a family on both sides of the strait" in the New Year greetings across the strait, and hoped that the two sides of the strait would break through the barriers and have a happy reunion soon.
In recent years, cross-strait relations have been complicated and severe, coupled with factors such as the new crown epidemic, making cross-strait exchanges quite difficult.
In an interview with China News Agency, Li Zhenguang, deputy dean of the Taiwan Research Institute of Beijing Union University, said that under this background, compatriots on both sides of the strait insist on expressing their family ties through the "cloud", which fully proves that the obstruction of the Taiwan authorities out of political interests cannot block the blood connection between the two sides of the strait. kinship and care for each other.
Blessings come across the sea, and longing continues. Resuming exchanges as soon as possible has become the common aspiration of compatriots on both sides of the strait this spring.
As Hong Xiuzhu, the former chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang, said in the New Year greeting video, I hope that the exchanges between the two sides of the strait in various fields can resume their enthusiasm, work together, and help each other.
Former Taipei City Councilor Luo Zhiqiang, Taiwan United Alliance Party Chairman Qi Jialin, Taiwan New Party Chairman Wu Chengdian, Taiwan People's Communist Party Chairman Lin Dewang and other party figures also expressed through New Year's greeting videos that they hope that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait will resume exchanges and go hand in hand.
Taipei City Councilor Qin Huizhu paid New Year's greetings to Shanghai residents. She said that Shanghai and Taipei are sister cities, and she hopes that after the epidemic, they can visit each other and cooperate with each other.
"I hope that the cultural bond between the two sides of the strait will become stronger in the coming year." Lin Gufang, the dean of Taipei Academy and cultural scholar, said in the New Year's greeting video.
Taiwanese Peking Opera artist Wei Haimin, a disciple of Mei Baojiu, a descendant of the Mei School of Peking Opera, expressed his wish to perform on stage in the mainland in the New Year.
Li Woyuan, a well-known Taiwanese painter who has been committed to cross-strait exchanges for more than 20 years, looks forward to bringing more Taiwanese compatriots to the mainland for exchanges in the future, and also welcomes friends from mainland painters to come to Taiwan to gather.
The Spring Festival is the common historical and cultural inheritance of compatriots on both sides of the strait, and it is also an important bridge and bond for mutual spiritual harmony.
The family is the epitome of blood connection and integrated development on both sides of the strait, and the New Year greetings from couples on both sides of the strait are also particularly touching.
Lin Minrui, a Taiwan compatriot lawyer who has lived in Beijing for 12 years, spent the fourth Chinese New Year in Beijing with his wife from Shandong, wishing the compatriots on both sides of the strait a happy new year together with their children.
Taiwanese youth Lin Yuyang and his wife Wang Man from Xi'an returned to Taiwan to celebrate the New Year. They hope that compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait can love each other and meet each other halfway.
Taiwanese youths and students who have celebrated the New Year in various places also expressed their New Year wishes through the camera.
Xu Tao, a Taiwanese youth who has been in the mainland for many years, returned to Taiwan to reunite with his family. He looks forward to the common development and shared prosperity of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait; Chen Yanhua, the person in charge of the Tanzi Tea House in Linhai, Zhejiang, hopes that more Taiwanese youths will take the initiative to integrate into the development of the motherland, so that the youth on both sides of the Taiwan Strait will be more harmonious. The cooperation "rabbit" has made rapid progress; Cao Genghao, a Taiwanese student studying at the School of International Relations at Renmin University of China, stayed at the school for the New Year. He said that his partners in mainland China took good care of him, which made him feel at home and warm here.
"During the New Year's greetings, the compatriots on both sides of the strait feel that their feelings for each other are deeper and stronger. As more Taiwan compatriots come to the mainland to study, work, live and take root, this connection will become deeper and deeper." Li Zhenguang looks forward to closer exchanges between the two sides of the strait in the future , more convenient, and lay a solid foundation for peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.
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