The delegation began its tour in the Guangdong province and held a meeting with students and professors at the Sun Yat-sen University. They also visited the memorial hall of the former site of the Huangpu Military Academy, as well as the DJI and the Tencent companies, the BYD automobile manufacturer, and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao bridge, among others.

The young people will arrive in the province of Shanxi on April 3rd, and in Beijing on the 7th; their stay in China will extend until the 11th.

The delegation will participate in the “Yellow Emperor Ceremony of the Qingming Xuanyuan Public Festival” on April 4th, and will visit other museums, temples and places of interest.

During their stay in the capital, the Taiwanese delegation will visit Peking University, the Forbidden City, the Chinese Academy of Space Technology, the Lugou Bridge, and the Memorial Hall of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.

Chen Binhua, spokesman of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, expressed his hope that these exchanges will foster cross-Strait cooperation and enable the peaceful development of relations.

Mainland China has proposed increasing ties with all sectors of Taiwan as part of a strategy to advance the peaceful policy of national reunification.

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