2015年CRI Chinese Mainland and Taiwan Should Uphold One-China Principle: State Council

Chinese Mainland and Taiwan Should Uphold One-China Principle: State Council

Ma Xiaoguang serves as a spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office. At a news conference on Wednesday, Ma said the One-China Principle has clearly defined the fundamental nature of the relations between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan.

"In 1992, the Association for Relations across the Taiwan Strait of the Chinese mainland and the Straits Exchange Foundation of Taiwan announced that the affairs between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan should be discussed under the one-China principle. After the talks in Hong Kong in October and a series of ensuing correspondence, the two sides reached an verbal consensus¹ that the Chinese mainland and Taiwan should stick to the one-China principle, which is the 1992 Consensus. Its core content is that both the Chinese mainland and Taiwan belong to one China and their relations are not state-to-state relations."

Ma was commenting on recent remarks by chair of Taiwan's opposition² Democratic Progressive Party Tsai Ing-wen. Tsai said on Sunday while she did not deny the 1992 meeting, there were other ways to interpret the event.

Ma says the historical records of the 1992 meeting should not be doubted. He added the consensus has served as the common political basis for the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations.

"It is on this common basis that a lot of important results have been made for the peaceful development of the cross-Strait relations, the peace and stability have been maintained across the Strait, and the people on both sides of the Strait have shared the dividends³ of peace. And it is on this basis that the cross-Strait relations have improved and developed, bringing real benefits to the people on both sides."

During the November meeting between Xi Jinping and Ma Ying-jeou, the two sides agreed to set up a hotline to promote cross-Strait relations through communications, on the basis of the 1992 Consensus. Ma says the hotline is already in operation.

"After the meeting, the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office has closely communicated and worked with the Mainland Affairs Council of Taiwan for the establishment of the hotline. Today, it is officially put into operation."

The spokesperson reveals that the chiefs of cross-Strait affairs from both sides have used it to speak to each other.

As another follow-up from the Xi-Ma meeting, the mainland will send another 500 students to Taiwan to pursue undergraduate studies in 2016.

Ma says students from Beijing, Shanghai and the provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Liaoning and Hubei will be added to the program, which already enrolls⁴ students from Guangdong and Fujian Provinces. The move will increase the total enrollment⁵ of mainland students in Taiwan to 1,500.

For CRI, I'm Wang Mengzhen.

1 consensus   

n.(意见等的)一致，一致同意，共识

参考例句：

• Can we reach a consensus on this issue?我们能在这个问题上取得一致意见吗？
• What is the consensus of opinion at the afternoon meeting?下午会议上一致的意见是什么？

2 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

3 dividends   

红利( dividend的名词复数 )； 股息； 被除数； （足球彩票的）彩金

参考例句：

• Nothing pays richer dividends than magnanimity. 没有什么比宽宏大量更能得到厚报。
• Their decision five years ago to computerise the company is now paying dividends. 五年前他们作出的使公司电脑化的决定现在正产生出效益。

4 enrolls   

v.[亦作enrol]( enroll的第三人称单数 )；登记，招收，使入伍（或入会、入学等），参加，成为成员；记入名册；卷起，包起

参考例句：

• Enrolls the newborn register of names to print afterward and to mail. 录取新生名册随后打印并寄发。 来自互联网
• The association enrolls 100, 000 members. 该协会拥有10万名会员。 来自互联网

5 enrollment   

n.注册或登记的人数；登记

参考例句：

• You will be given a reading list at enrollment.注册时你会收到一份阅读书目。
• I just got the enrollment notice from Fudan University.我刚刚接到复旦大学的入学通知书。