Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council: Thoroughly implement the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee on Taiwan work, and greet the victory of the 20th National Congress of the Party with excellent results

Beijing, 12 Jan (Taiwan) -- The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council held a regular press conference this morning, and Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, presided over the press conference.

China News Service: Sun Yafu, vice president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS), said in an interview a few days ago that the 20th CPC National Congress may put forward some new propositions and arrangements, which will have a positive impact on promoting work toward Taiwan and on the situation in the Taiwan Strait. What is the Spokesperson's comment on this?

Zhu Fenglian: This year is an important year to enter the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country and marching toward the second centenary goal. The Twentieth National Congress of the Communist Party of China will be convened, which is a major event in the political life of the Party and the state. We will thoroughly implement the party's overall strategy for resolving the Taiwan issue in the new era and the decision-making and deployment of the party Central Committee's work on Taiwan, resolutely smash the separatist plot of "Taiwan independence," resolutely oppose interference by external forces, continue to promote the peaceful development and integrated development of cross-strait relations, solidly advance the process of the reunification of the motherland, strive to create a favorable environment in the Taiwan Strait for comprehensively building a modern socialist country and realizing the second centenary goal, and greet the party's 20th national victory with outstanding achievements. (Taiwan Network Zhang Ling)