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17:07, 20-Nov-2017
Four in 10 Taiwanese willing to work on Chinese mainland
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The willingness of Taiwanese to work and let their children study on the Chinese mainland has reached the highest level since 2010, a survey showed Monday.
About 40 percent of 1,017 respondents said they are willing to work on the Chinese mainland, up nine percentage points year on year, while the share of parents who would agree to let their children study on the mainland grew from 32 percent last year to 38 percent this year, according to the annual survey on cross-Strait relations released by Taiwanese newspaper United Daily News.
The figures are the highest for eight years and reflect the increasingly favorable impression that Taiwanese have of their mainland counterparts – an opinion that increased five percentage points to 49 percent this year.
Taiwanese job seekers look for work opportunities on the Chinese mainland at a job fair in Taipei on July 1. /Xinhua Photo
Taiwanese job seekers look for work opportunities on the Chinese mainland at a job fair in Taipei on July 1. /Xinhua Photo
Accordingly, people-to-people exchanges are regarded as the best-performing field between the two sides compared with military, political and economic interactions, the survey showed.
The Chinese mainland will continue to enable Taiwanese to enjoy equal treatment in terms of study, business and earnings as mainland compatriots in accordance with the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China convened last month, said a spokesperson at the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office last week.
Taiwan's leader Tsai Ing-wen. /Xinhua Photo
Taiwan's leader Tsai Ing-wen. /Xinhua Photo
The survey found that 56 percent of the respondents are dissatisfied with the performance of the island's current leader Tsai Ing-wen in handling cross-Strait relations, up from 48 percent last year, and 47 percent questioned the authorities' cross-Strait policies.
Tsai has failed to maintain the status quo of cross-Strait relations due to a series of "alienation" policies and should wake up to the calls of Taiwanese as they are more willing to interact with mainland counterparts, the newspaper said in an editorial.
Source(s): Xinhua News Agency