The third phase of Wutong Passenger Terminal was completed and put into use in 2019, with a maximum annual passenger reception capacity of 5 million passengers. Reporter Wang Huoyan aerial camera camera
Straits Forum
Data chart: On June 16, 2019, guests from both sides of the strait who participated in the 11th Straits Forum took photos in front of the venue. Photo by reporter Huang Rong
Help Taiwan enterprises
With the help of the Municipal Office of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao and other departments, the Taiwanese enterprise Dacheng Steel Structure successfully resumed work and production in February, and orderly completed orders. Courtesy of the Municipal Association of Taiwan Businessmen
Stylistic communication
Data map: On May 25, 2019, at the cross-strait dragon boat race, athletes on both sides of the strait fought bravely to be the first. Photo by reporter Zhang Qihui
Fujian-Taiwan studies
Data map: Students from both sides of the strait boarded the "Tiangong-1" interactive experience module to experience "space tour" at the Chengyi Science and Technology Exploration Center. Photo by reporter Huang Xiaozhen
According to a report by Xiamen Daily on May 20, Xiamen and Taiwan face each other across the sea. As a "test field" and "vanguard" of taiwan-related work, over the past year, Xiamen City has kept firmly in mind the entrustment of General Secretary Xi Jinping, thoroughly implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech and important instructions, given full play to its unique advantages in dealing with Taiwan, taken the initiative to take the initiative, actively acted, devoted itself to taking the lead in testing Taiwan, actively explored a new road for the integration and development of the two sides of the strait, worked hard to build Xiamen into the first home for Taiwan compatriots and Taiwan enterprises to land, and set an example in promoting cross-strait integration and development.
Implementation should be exhaustive
Constantly improving
Xiamen-Taiwan "Four Links"
"The two sides of the strait should be fully connected", Xiamen City bears in mind the entrustment of General Secretary Xi Jinping, and continuously improves the smooth flow of economic and trade cooperation, infrastructure connectivity, energy resources and industry standards.
The introduction of high-quality Taiwan-funded projects such as Xinmi Semiconductor and Yonghong Advanced Materials; the capital increase and expansion of Taiwan-funded projects such as Chenhong Technology and Lingyang Technology, the commissioning of Taiwan-funded projects such as Xintianhong, and the first cross-strait joint venture fully licensed securities company Jinyuan Unified Securities settled in Xiamen - Since 2019, Xiamen has newly approved 1,013 Taiwan-funded projects, with 790 million US dollars of Taiwanese capital in contract and 437 million US dollars of Taiwanese capital.
The establishment of the Xiamen Gold "Ventilation" Work Leading Group and the Xiamen Golden Bridge Work Promotion Group has attracted much attention, and the preliminary plan for the Xiamen Gold Power Interconnection Project and the preliminary plan for the Xiamen Gold Bridge have been prepared. A seminar on the interconnection of electric power between Fujian and Kinmen and Matsu was held in Xiamen, and the construction of the Dadeng and Wangdeng substations marked that the Xiamen-Jinpower interconnection had entered the substantive construction stage.
Xiamen and Taiwan jointly develop tourism resources, the Straits Tourism Service Center project was completed and attracted investment; the first Xiamen Jinpeng Tourism Festival was held at the same time as the 15th Tourism Expo, and the "One-way Multi-Station" tourism market was jointly expanded and strengthened; the "Penghu Maritime Fireworks Festival" was promoted in Xiamen for the first time in 2019... Xiamen city also with the help of the approved transit port qualification, continue to expand the China-Europe (Xiamen) train to Taiwan business, and successfully docked with Kaohsiung Port.
In terms of cross-strait industry standard interconnection, Xiamen has been the first to try. As early as July 2011, Xiamen became one of the first batch of "cross-strait cold chain logistics industry cooperation pilot cities" set up by the Ministry of Commerce and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council in the country, and after that, including exploring the establishment of cross-strait relevant standards and promoting the release and implementation of cross-strait food cold chain logistics standards, they have been effectively implemented, especially the Xiamen food cold chain logistics series standards jointly produced by Taiwanese experts, which have recently been upgraded to "national standards".
Deepen the integration of Xiamen and Taiwan
Drive the lead
Xiamen Gold "Four Links and Three Modernizations"
Xiamen Gold jointly held the Spring Festival fireworks party, the Spring Festival cross-strait winter swimming, the Xiamen Golden Strait crossing and other exchange activities. A series of measures and a series of cooperation consensus have promoted the continuous deepening of cooperation in various fields between Xiamen and Jin, and also marked that the cross-strait integration development demonstration zone is accelerating its construction. The relevant departments of Xiamen-Jin held a Xiamen-Jin cooperation matchmaking meeting, deepened the Xiamen-Jin cooperation mechanism, continued to improve the consultation mechanism of the Xiamen-Jin cooperation matchmaking meeting, extended the Xiamen public service platforms such as culture, tourism, sports, and exhibitions to Kinmen, and promoted the "four links and three modernizations" in the Xiamen-Jinjin region.
The third phase of Wutong Passenger Terminal was completed and put into use, with a maximum annual passenger reception capacity of 5 million passengers. The wharf implements the "joint inspection of customs inspection" model to achieve "the same machine and the same stage, joint inspection, and direct release".
The "Peace Star" wheel was put into operation, and the 10 ships on the Xiamen-Gold Route were fully replaced. Xiamen-Jin direct passenger ship entry and exit inspection opened a "green channel" and implemented "zero wait-time service in port". The "COSCO Star" round ticketing service is included in the "I Haitai" system, and the "i Xiamen" platform is enabled to use the module of the "i Xiamen" platform for residents from outside the province to go to the golden tour. In 2019, there were 1.823 million inbound and outbound passengers on the Xiamen-Jin route, a record high.
Benefit Taiwan compatriots
Provide equal treatment for Taiwan compatriots and Taiwan enterprises
In order to implement the requirements of the general secretary, in the past year, Xiamen City has intensively introduced and implemented a series of Huitai policies to provide equal treatment for Taiwan compatriots and Taiwan enterprises, reflecting the characteristics of fast action, practical implementation, good results, and good response.
In June last year, Xiamen City issued the "Several Measures of Xiamen City on Exploring a New Road for Cross-Strait Integration and Development" (hereinafter referred to as "Xiamen Integrated Development 45 Articles"), which is divided into three major parts, such as upgrading the "four links" between Xiamen and Taiwan and creating the first home for Taiwan compatriots and Taiwan enterprises to land; benefiting Taiwan compatriots and Providing equal treatment for Taiwan compatriots and Taiwan enterprises; deepening cultural exchanges, enhancing Taiwan compatriots' cognition and feelings about the nation and the country, and fully extending and expanding in combination with Xiamen's advantages in Taiwan characteristics. Since the introduction of the measures, all relevant departments in the city have worked new, real, integrated and inclusive, actively promoted the implementation of the 45 Articles of Integrated Development in Xiamen, and made positive progress.
In February this year, in order to implement in detail the "Several Measures on Further Promoting Cross-Strait Economic and Cultural Exchanges and Cooperation" (hereinafter referred to as "Huitai 26 Articles" ) issued by the relevant central departments, Xiamen issued the "< Several Measures for Further Promoting Cross-Strait Economic and Cultural Exchanges and Cooperation > Implementation Rules", further clarifying the procedures for declaring and handling policies. When Wu Jiaying, president of the Xiamen Taiwan Merchants Association, saw this detailed and thoughtful "nanny-style" detailed rule for the first time, she bluntly said that "all are dry goods and all are sincere."
The new crown pneumonia epidemic has led to a slowdown in the global economy, but in the "second half" of the mainland's epidemic prevention and control, many Taiwanese enterprises in Xiamen have seized the opportunity of the mainland's economic development and resumed production with the help of Xiamen's "Huitai 26" implementation rules, and their performance has grown against the trend. Taiwanese enterprise Xiamen Zhengyang Logistics Company, has become a comprehensive logistics body serving a number of well-known enterprises on both sides of the strait, General Manager Song Keqi bluntly said that with the help of huitai policy, enterprises not only recover well in production, but also retain a number of high-quality customers, and the business is currently in a growth stage.
A series of Huitai policies not only bring about equal treatment, but also bring new opportunities for development to many Taiwan enterprises. Yumin Shipping Company became the first Taiwan-funded seafarers dispatching crew members to the world's fleet in the mainland. Taiwan enterprise Yuanke Transportation Service Company launched the mainland's first Taiwan-funded micro-circulation bus project "Lixiangxing" and established the mainland's first fully Taiwan-funded online ride-hailing fleet "Xiamen Yuanke Baodao Motorcade". Xiamen Cross-Strait (Haicang) UAV and Intelligent Robot Incubation Base has become a national science and technology enterprise incubator.
As of 2019, more than 3,500 Taiwan compatriots in Xiamen have participated in basic medical insurance, more than 2,100 Taiwan compatriots have participated in enterprise pension insurance, issued 31.904 million yuan of provident fund loans for Taiwan compatriots, and issued more than 1,400 exclusive credit cards for Taiwan compatriots.
Deepen cultural exchanges
Enhance the integration of Taiwan compatriots' national feelings into their new homeland
"It is necessary to strengthen cross-strait exchanges and cooperation, intensify cultural exchanges, and do work in the hearts of the vast number of Taiwan compatriots." Over the past year, Xiamen City has continuously innovated and expanded Taiwan-related exchange platforms, continuously deepened social and cultural exchanges, and continuously enhanced Taiwan compatriots' cognition and feelings for the nation and the country.
The 11th Straits Forum was successfully held, with more than 10,000 Taiwan compatriots participating in 67 activities, and the number reached a new high; more than 100 cross-strait folk culture exchange activities such as the Dragon Boat Cultural Festival were successfully held; cross-strait industrial exchange activities such as the Xiamen Fair, the Industry Fair, the Cultural Fair, and the Map Fair were successfully held; cross-strait people's livelihood exchange activities such as the Marriage and Family Forum, the Workers' Forum, and the Public Welfare Forum were successfully held; and cross-strait sports exchange activities such as the Marathon City Invitational Tournament and the Straits Cup Regatta were successfully held. A total of more than 50 Taiwan-related non-governmental exchange activities were held regularly in Xiamen or held in turn in Xiamen, and their effectiveness and impact were continuously improved.
Xiamen City held a cross-strait university students' creative culture festival, and experts, scholars and youth representatives from both sides of the strait, with the theme of "realizing dreams with you", carried out zero-distance collision of cultural and creative thinking and deepened mutual understanding. In Xiamen, 169 universities and cultural and creative institutions from both sides of the strait signed the "Strategic Cooperation Agreement on Supporting the Development of Cultural Industries on Both Sides of the Strait". The cross-strait youth knowledge-action integration study camp allows students on both sides of the strait to eat, live, play, communicate and share with their parents, feel "having fun in learning and gaining something in learning" in the special study courses, effectively promote the emotional integration and spiritual integration of young people on both sides of the strait, and become a realistic witness and emotional connection between young people on both sides of the strait.
Urban and grassroots exchanges continued to be warm, Kaohsiung, Taichung, Matsu, Penghu, Yunlin and other Taiwan counties and cities visiting delegations have come to Xiamen, and Reached a series of cooperation intentions with Xiamen in the fields of economic and trade industry, tourism, social culture, and people-to-people exchanges.
Xiamen has innovated and expanded various Taiwan-related exchange platforms, not only establishing the mainland's first Taiwan law identification research center, the first cross-strait tour guide leader training base "Xiamen Free Trade Area Tourism Talents and Cross-Strait Tour Guide Leader Training Base", the first cross-strait joint laboratory for gastroenterology research in the strait, but also setting up a cross-strait youth new media cultural and creative exchange base, a cross-strait Hakka youth cultural exchange base, a Xiamen Strait Industrial Design Promotion Center, and a Taiwan-related judicial research base of the China Judicial Research Association. Fujian Taiwan-related inspection and display platform "Xiamen Taiwan Compatriots and Taiwan Enterprises Rights and Interests Protection Rule of Law Publicity Base", cross-strait traditional Chinese medicine culture exhibition hall, Taiwan standardization (Xiamen) research center and other types of exchange platforms.
Xiamen City took the lead in establishing the "O2O" model of the "Siming Taiwan Compatriots Station" friendship platform, offline Taiwan Compatriots Station Friendship Point, etc., to provide Taiwan enterprises and Taiwan compatriots with diversified package services. Xinglong Community, the only pilot community for Taiwan service in Xiamen, is based on the advantages of many Taiwan businessmen and many Taiwan compatriots, in order to promote the concept of community governance of "the integration of one family and compatriots on both sides of the strait", to take public welfare actions as the link of compatriot integration, and to use butler-style service and family-like care to truly let Taiwan compatriots settle down in Xiamen, integrate into Xiamen, and fall in love with Xiamen.
In 2019, Xiamen (Jimei) Fujian-Taiwan Study and Travel Base was rated as a national-level cross-strait exchange base. At present, there are a total of 16 non-governmental exchange bases in the city, and 3 "cross-strait exchange bases" licensed by the Taiwan Affairs Office of china, including Qingjiao Tzu Chi Palace, Shishi Academy, and Xiamen (Jimei) Fujian-Taiwan Research and Travel Base.
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Passenger traffic on the Xiamen-Jin route last year
Nearly 2 million passengers
●In 2019, there were 1.823 million inbound and outbound passengers on the Xiamen-Jin route, an increase of 4.46% year-on-year, a record high. By the end of 2019, the total number of inbound and outbound passengers on the Xiamen-Jin route was 19.694 million.
● Since 2019, Xiamen has approved 1,013 taiwan-funded projects, with a contract of 790 million U.S. dollars in Taiwanese capital and an actual use of 437 million U.S. dollars in Taiwanese capital.
At present, Xiamen has 7 state-level "cross-strait youth employment and entrepreneurship bases (demonstration sites)" and 10 provincial-level Taiwan youth employment and entrepreneurship bases, with a total of more than 3,500 young people in Taiwan. The city's 219 municipal maker spaces attracted 740 Taiwanese entrepreneurial teams to Xiamen.
●There are a total of 16 non-governmental exchange bases in the city, and 3 "cross-strait exchange bases" licensed by the Taiwan Affairs Office of china.
● As of 2019, more than 3,500 Taiwan compatriots in Xiamen have participated in basic medical insurance, more than 2,100 Taiwan compatriots have participated in enterprise endowment insurance, issued 31.904 million yuan of provident fund loans for Taiwan compatriots, issued more than 1,400 exclusive credit cards for Taiwan compatriots, and implemented the issuance of scholarships for primary and secondary school students of Taiwan compatriots.
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The level of integrated development of Xiamen and Taiwan
Further improvement
Liu Jinzhu, director of the Municipal Office of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao: General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the publication of the "Message to Taiwan Compatriots" and the deliberations of the Fujian delegation to the Second Session of the 13th National People's Congress have pointed out the direction and provided fundamental guidelines for us to further carry out our work toward Taiwan and promote the integration and development of the two sides of the strait. Over the past year, Xiamen City has kept in mind General Secretary Yin Yin's entrustment, conscientiously implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on taiwan work, strengthened confidence, overcome difficulties, worked new, practical, integrated, and integrated development, and focused on building a cross-strait integration and development demonstration zone.
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"One enterprise, one policy" to help
Support Taiwan enterprises to resume work
On May 15, a video link was held connecting industry operators in Xiamen, Taichung and Kinmen, who discussed the experience of epidemic prevention and control and the measures to strengthen exchanges and cooperation in the future across the screen. The consensus is that the epidemic cannot stop the pace of cross-strait integration. Wu Guisen, chairman of the Taichung City General Industry Association, said bluntly: "People-to-people exchanges between the two sides of the strait cannot be stopped, cannot be less, and cannot be broken, so let us work together!"
In order to help Taiwan enterprises prevent and control the epidemic and resume work and production, Xiamen has introduced various policies and measures to provide support for hydropower, energy, finance, transportation and logistics, and the expansion of online consumption and markets. Xiamen City sent 6 research teams to visit 120 Taiwan enterprises in depth, to care about the epidemic prevention and control situation of Taiwan compatriots and Taiwan enterprises, to understand the main difficulties faced by Taiwan enterprises in Xiamen to resume work and production, to introduce ten work measures to increase confidence, overcome difficulties, stabilize expectations, and xiamen to implement the central "26 measures" implementation rules, etc., "one enterprise, one policy" meticulously helped, for Xiamen Taiwan enterprises to coordinate the solution of various problems in epidemic prevention and control and resumption of work and production. The city's epidemic prevention and control work related to Taiwan has achieved remarkable results, with zero confirmed cases of Taiwan compatriots in Xiamen and zero infection of Taiwan enterprises.
Taiwanese enterprises Xiamen BlueStar Enterprise Co., Ltd. and Mobi Optical Technology (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. are both epidemic prevention material production enterprises, and the Municipal Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office coordinated relevant departments to send people to provide epidemic prevention guidance for enterprises on the spot, help repair equipment, and help enterprises resume work and production smoothly. Xiamen City also held a matchmaking meeting between key Taiwan enterprises and talent human resources institutions, and volunteers from Taiwan compatriots in Xiamen took the initiative to appear and say that they would attract Taiwan compatriots to return to Work in Xiamen. In order to alleviate the operational pressure of the Qingchuang Base, Xiamen City timely issued the 2019 annual award and compensation funds in place, and revised the Qingchuang Award Compensation Method to expand the scope of benefits for Taiwan youth.
Wu Jiaying, president of the Xiamen Taiwan Businessmen's Association, praised: "These measures with temperature are like a raging fire in the cold winter, which has warmed the heart of every Taiwan businessman who has returned to Xiamen to resume work, and has also made Taiwan-funded enterprises in Xiamen full of confidence in the mainland's economy and market prospects and rush forward with full horsepower." At present, all Taiwan enterprises above designated size and the "three highs" in Xiamen have resumed work, 2,501 key Taiwan-funded enterprises and 687 Taiwan enterprises in Qingchuang bases have all resumed work, Taiwanese executives, Taiwan cadres and technical personnel have basically returned to Xiamen and resumed work, and the production capacity of enterprises is close to or even exceeds the same period.
Taiwan-funded enterprises such as Guanjie Technology, AUO Optoelectronics, and Chenhong Technology are all in full swing to increase capital and expand production. Wu Jiaying's own building materials enterprise export orders also grew against the trend. With the help of the Municipal Office of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, the Municipal Taiwan Affairs Association is also ready to cooperate with the Ali live broadcast platform to train 1,000 Taiwan anchors to help Taiwan enterprises better transform and upgrade.
People's Daily, CCTV 4, Xinhua Net, People's Network, and the "Learning to Strengthen the Country" platform and other central media special reports praised Xiamen's support for Taiwan enterprises' resumption of work and production; the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council and the Provincial Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Office also introduced xiamen's work experience in helping Taiwan enterprises resume work and production.
(Reporter Zhan Wen)