State Council Taiwan Affairs Office: Hope that the Democratic Progressive Party authorities will soon abolish all kinds of artificial restrictions and bans.

The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council holds a routine press conference. A reporter asked: "The Forum of Think Tanks of the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China proposed in the joint opinion to deepen the exchange and cooperation on tourism between the two sides of the strait, to quickly realize group tours for residents of Fujian and Shanghai to Taiwan, and gradually expand the mainland residents' tour to Kinmen and Matsu. Does the mainland have a timetable for this? How will the next step promote implementation?" Spokesperson Chen Binhua said that the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced that Shanghai residents would be allowed to travel to Kinmen and Matsu in the near future, which is a practical measure to promote the normalization of tourism exchanges between the two sides and expand exchanges between the two sides. The tourism industry and various sectors of Taiwan have given high praise. We hope that the DPP authorities will consider the welfare of the Taiwan compatriots and quickly cancel various artificial restrictions and bans to remove obstacles for the normalization of tourism exchanges and cooperation between the two sides.