Taiwanese immigration in China dwindles despite preferential treatment • FRANCE 24 English

10 years ago Chen chenyang bought a taste of home to China’s fuen Province the Taiwanese Chef moved here with his wife to open a restaurant taiwan’s Cuisine is similar to fujian it’s sweet and fresh our soup is special and the sauce is also different we import it from Taiwan Taiwanese Cuisine with Chinese

Influences Chen’s dishes reflect his identity not basically if I came here it’s also because I acknowledged that there’s no need to say oh I’m a Taiwanese person or a Chinese person you know what I mean we’re all the same anyway taiwan’s statistics point to a steady drop of Taiwanese migrants

Arriving in mainland China from 2013 to 2021 this despite preferential treatment at border controls when we came to the mainland it wasn’t too complicated you just needed to get a pass go to the Border Police Station to report your arrival and get a residence permit so it’s very convenient authorities have simplified

The process even more since January this year promising shorter processing times and easier access to Medical Services this Taiwanese dentist describes the new policies as a great opportunity Dr Sophia Sue has been living in the mainland since 2004 I think moving to China has been a very welcoming experience and they let us

Taiwanese feel like part of one family in Shen they also use hokan dialect here which is very similar to Taiwanese in fact in Shen it’s really impossible to distinguish who is Taiwanese and who is Chinese Cultural linguistic similarities and Geographic proximity put this province at the heart of beijing’s

So-called reun ification strategy from Shaman’s Coastline taiwan’s kinman Islands can be seen with the naked eye and beijing’s message for the self-ruled archipelago is clear for onlookers one country two systems both sides of the straight have the same roots of course I hope that Taiwan will be reunified with China as soon as

Possible but this yearning is mostly one-sided in Taiwan fewer and fewer people feel Chinese last year one Paul found that 2/3 of residents identify as being only Taiwanese

The number of Taiwanese immigrants in China’s Fujian province, once known as a migration hotspot, has steadily dropped in recent years, according to statistics compiled by Taiwanese authorities. Despite preferential treatment for Taiwanese at Chinese borders, fewer and fewer people are moving across the Taiwan Strait. Yena Lee and Jasmine Ling report
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8 comments

  1. It doesn't matter how many times the Chinese regime repeats the lies,
    – Taiwan 🇹🇼 is still an independent country.

  2. One country, two systems until you annoy the CCP enough for them to act. Remember the lessons learned in Hong Kong. Do not trust the CCP if you value your freedom.

  4. This gentle strategy that China is trying to portray towards Taiwan would have worked if they hadn’t accidentally unmasked their true intentions and approach in Hong Kong! 😂

  6. Well, it's because a lot of Chinese from Fujian moved to Taiwan before China officially became communist. So, now that the Taiwanese going back to Fujian, would there be much differences?

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