Mainland Taiwan Affairs Office claims that mainland China restricts mainland students going to Taiwan. Taiwan Strait Bureau: It is completely reversing black and white, spreading rumors and slander.

On April 8th, the State Council's Taiwan Affairs Office held a routine press conference. A reporter asked: Recently, Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council has called for the mainland to lift the unilateral restrictions imposed since April 2020 and allow mainland students to come to Taiwan to pursue degrees. They claim that Taiwan has always welcomed mainland students, but due to mainland policy restrictions, the number of new mainland students coming to Taiwan has been zero for the past 5 years, and the number of remaining degree-seeking students in Taiwan has significantly decreased. What is your comment on this? Spokesperson Zhu Fenglian said that this statement is completely twisting the truth and spreading rumors to discredit. In recent years, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities have obstructed cross-strait exchanges, ignoring the strong desire of Taiwan's education sector and young students to participate in cross-strait exchanges, and have severely restricted and suppressed educational exchanges and cooperation between the two sides. On the one hand, the DPP authorities have prohibited domestic universities from collaborating with 10 universities including Jinan University and Beihang University, using various pretexts to obstruct education exchanges between schools of all levels across the strait, and imposing various unreasonable restrictions and unfair treatment on mainland students coming to Taiwan to study. On the other hand, the DPP authorities have intensifying "green terror" by scrutinizing water bills, cutting funding, blocking projects of some university presidents, deans, and teachers who travel to the mainland for exchanges. These political maneuvers seriously undermine the normal development of educational exchanges between the two sides of the strait. It is advised that the DPP authorities listen more to the voices of the people of Taiwan and refrain from playing tricks to evade responsibility.