Lien: Don't demonize China's growth
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-04-14 10:44
The world should not demonize or smear the development of the Chinese
mainland, nor regard it as a threat, Chinese Kuomintang Honorary Chairman Lien
Chan said in Beijiing Friday.
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Lien Chan, honorary
chairman of Kuomintang, an opposition party in Taiwan, delivers a speech
at the opening of the two-day Cross-Straits Economic and Trade Forum
in Beijing April 14, 2006. CPC General Secretary Hu Jintao is set to meet
Lien on Sunday. [Xinhua]
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The Chinese
mainland provides market for countries like the United States and Japan,
promotes their production efficiency, increases their people's purchasing
capacity, relieves their deficit or economic stress and helps channel their
investment into industries with high added-value, Lien said.
Lien made
these remarks at the opening of the two-day Cross-Straits Economic and
Trade Forum in Beijing.
The booming trade between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan plays a key role in
Taiwan's economic growth over the past six year, Lien.
The
resources of Chinese mainland are vital for the future development of Taiwan's
economy.
The economic and trade relationship between the Chinese
mainland and Taiwan is "very, very close," and it has been proved by the latest
statistics from the World Trade Organization, which showed the investment from
Taiwan in the mainland reached 58 billion U.S. dollars last year, said Lien.
Taiwan aims to become an island of science and technology as well as a
business hub of storage, logistics, finance and marketing of the world. These
could not be realized without the resources of the mainland, said
Lien.
Lien said the opening of the Chinese mainland market has helped
Taiwan maintain an annul economic growth of 3.57 percent in the past six years
despite dwindling domestic demand and declining consumption.
The Chinese
mainland and Taiwan should push forward their cooperation in agriculture,
finance, energy, charter flight, education and medical service, Lien Chan
said.
The mainland and Taiwan can enhance energy cooperation so as to
raise energy efficiency and safeguard energy security, he said.
However, he said, after the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) took power in
Taiwan, its political policy has severely conflicted with Taiwan's economic
development demand, he said.
This makes Taiwan lose the momentum of
further economic growth, Lien said.
In his speech titled "Peace and
Prosperity -- Common Aspiration," Lien called for peace and common development
across the Taiwan Straits. He reiterated his stance on the cross-Straits
relations and hoped that proposals put forward at the two-day forum could boost
the development of the cross-Straits ties in the
future.
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