Over 250 people from both sides of the Taiwan Straits participated in an event on Saturday to celebrate the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, one of China's most important traditional holidays, in Fuzhou, the capital city of Fujian Province.

Song Tao, head of both the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, met with major Taiwan guests attending the event, including Sean Lien, vice chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) party.

Song noted that 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression as well as the 80th anniversary of Taiwan's recovery from Japanese occupation.

He highlighted the shared national identity and aspirations for the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, urging continued opposition to separatism and external interference, and promoting peaceful development and integration across the Taiwan Straits.

Lien remarked that the Mid-Autumn Festival is a key tradition symbolizing reunion, completeness and harmony. On the foundation of upholding the 1992 Consensus and opposing "Taiwan independence," the KMT will continue to promote cross-Straits exchanges and peaceful development, he added.

Guests from Taiwan hailed the mainland's relevant policies to advance cross-Straits integrated development and pledged to seize opportunities, work hard and contribute in their own ways to cross-Straits peaceful development, national reunification and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.