Border control officers process Taiwan residents' travel permits in a special channel on Wednesday at Pingtan's Aoqian Port. Zhang Yi/China Daily Pingtan, an island situated off the east coast of Fujian offers easy entry for Taiwan residents who take ships to the mainland. The local public security department and border control patrol jointly opened up a special channel on Wednesday for Taiwan residents to get travel permits at Pingtan's Aoqian Port. Since 2011, when a direct sea route between Pingtan and Taiwan was opened, two ships - CSF and Natchan Rera Cruise - regularly make ferry runs from Pingtan to Taipei and Taichung, Taiwan. Taiwan residents who take the ships and enter the mainland through the port need travel permits issued by mainland public security officials, and they can apply for the permits at the port. Before, they had to line up twice - first for the certificate application and then for identification checks. When there are many passengers, the waiting time is longer, said Yuan Tao, a border inspector. As more residents from Taiwan come to the mainland through this port, the service will be needed more. To reduce wait times, the two departments launched a special channel for Taiwan residents, combining the procedures of application, fee payment, permit issuance and inspection at a single window. They only need to wait in line once, which saves about 20 minutes for those applying for permits at the port, he said. On Thursday night, a ship with more than 200 passengers left Taichung for Pingtan, including 30 passengers from Taiwan who were visiting the mainland for the first time. All of them planned to apply for travel permits at the port. Among them was Yeh Chen-li from Yunlin county, who planned to stay for four days. I finished the application form on board and handed it in at the border control window when I arrived at the terminal, Yeh said. It took about 10 minutes to get my permit, much faster than I expected. Yuan Hsiung-wei, a tour guide who took a group to the mainland from Taipei, said, There is a bigger chance for more tours as more exchanges take place. The trip takes only about three hours by ship, so many people will want to have a look of the mainland. Wei Li is a frequent visitor. She said she will open a shop in Pingtan to sell products from Taiwan. The transportation for people and goods is convenient from Taiwan to Pingtan, and there have been more mainland tourists visiting Pingtan in recent years, she said. Since the beginning of April, direct service by ship between the two sides have increased from seven to nine round trips a week to meet increasing demand, according to border officials. More than 35,000 people, including more than 20,000 Taiwan residents, entered the mainland at the port from January to April, up 77 percent year-on-year. montre homme bracelet siliconerubber message braceletspersonalized rubber band braceletssilicone wristbands vancouvercustom wristbands in bulk
President praises Pyongyang's efforts to reach resolution China supports the DPRK's efforts to denuclearize the peninsula and backs the planned dialogue and consultation between the DPRK and the United States for resolving the issue, President Xi Jinping said this week. Xi made the remarks in meetings with Kim Jong-un, the top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, on Monday and Tuesday in the northeastern Chinese coastal city of Dalian. The president also said China will work further with parties involved and play a positive role in comprehensively advancing the process of peaceful dialogues to resolve the peninsula issue and to achieve long-lasting tranquillity in the region. Kim first made an unofficial visit to China from March 25 to 28, then met with Republic of Korea President Moon Jae-in on April 27. Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-un hold talks in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning province, on May 7-8, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua] During Kim's second stay in China, which concluded on Tuesday, Xi held talks with Kim and hosted a welcome banquet for him. Together, they also took a stroll and attended a luncheon. The two top leaders had an in-depth exchange of views on bilateral ties. Xi said that he and Kim held their historic first meeting in Beijing in March, during which they had a long and in-depth discussion and reached a consensus in four areas on developing China-DPRK relations in the new era. First, the China-DPRK traditional friendship has been a treasure for both countries. It is an unswerving principle and is the only choice for the two countries to develop their friendly and cooperative relations. Second, both China and the DPRK are socialist countries, and their bilateral relations are of major strategic significance. Both countries need to enhance their unity, cooperation, exchanges and mutual learning. Third, high-level exchanges between the parties of the two countries play an irreplaceably significant role in guiding bilateral relations, Xi said. The two sides should maintain frequent exchanges, strengthen strategic communication, deepen understanding and mutual trust and safeguard common interests. Fourth, cementing the people-to-people friendship foundation is an important channel to advance the development of China-DPRK relations, Xi said. The two countries should in many ways enhance people-to-people communication and exchanges to create a sound foundation for the advancement of China-DPRK relations. Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-un hold talks in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning province, on May 7-8, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua] Xi said he spoke highly of Kim's second trip to China within 40 days, which, he said, shows the great importance attached to the relationship and the strategic-level communication between the two parties and the two countries. Kim, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, said his second trip to China was to reinforce strategic communication and cooperation, catalyzing the bilateral friendship and boosting regional peace and stability. The progress made since March in bilateral ties and in the peninsula situation is an outcome of his historic meeting with Xi, Kim said. Kim spoke highly of Xi's vision and said he appreciated China's key, lasting contribution to achieving the peninsula's denuclearization and securing regional peace and stability. Speaking about the peninsula situation, Xi said Kim has actively worked to boost dialogues regarding the peninsula and ease tensions there and has yielded positive outcomes. With joint efforts made by all parties involved, the peninsula is gaining momentum toward the direction of facilitating a political settlement, Xi said. Kim said it is the DPRK's lasting position to achieve the peninsula's denuclearization. As long as the relevant party eliminates its hostile policies and security threats against the DPRK, there is no need for the DPRK to possess nuclear weapons, and the denuclearization could be achieved, Kim added. It is hoped that the DPRK and the United States can engage in dialogue and build mutual trust, and that all the parties involved can take step-by-step and simultaneous measures in a dutiful manner to comprehensively advance a political settlement of the peninsula issue and ultimately achieve the peninsula's denuclearization and lasting peace, Kim said. Also, Kim briefed Xi about the recent progress of the country's development and his Party's buildup. China supports the DPRK's shift in its strategic focus to economic buildup and supports comrades in the DPRK to take their own development path in keeping with the country's national conditions, Xi said. Xinhua contributed to this story. rubber bracelets animalswhere to buy wristbandsblue silicone wristbandscoloured wristbands for eventssilicone wristband bracelet<%2fcenter>
