According to Xinhua News Agency, the measures include steps to resume cross-strait exchanges, expand market access and deepen political communication, though several remain conditional on adherence to Beijing’s position against Taiwan independence.
The announcement came after Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of Taiwan’s largest opposition party, the Kuomintang, met Chinese President Xi Jinping and discussed the need for peace and reconciliation.
What the 10 incentives include:
- Exploring a regular communication mechanism between China’s Communist Party and Taiwan’s opposition
- Encouraging full resumption of direct flights across the Taiwan Strait
- Allowing residents from Shanghai and Fujian to travel to Taiwan
- Easing curbs on Chinese tourism to the island
- Facilitating sales of Taiwanese food and agricultural products in China
- Streamlining inspection standards for food and fishery products
- Allowing Taiwanese TV dramas, documentaries and animation in China
- Expanding cultural and media exchanges, subject to content conditions
- Promoting economic and trade cooperation mechanisms
- Encouraging broader people-to-people exchanges
Xinhua said media content would be allowed if it has “correct orientation, healthy content and high production quality,” while food-related measures would hinge on a political foundation of opposing Taiwan independence.
There was no immediate response from Taiwan’s government.
China continues to refuse engagement with President Lai Ching-te, whom it considers a separatist, even as it seeks to rebuild ties through the opposition and revive exchanges disrupted in recent years.
