Today is a historic moment for both sides of the Taiwan Strait. After decades, the door to exchanges has once again opened.
The special plane taken by Li Jianhui and Su Jiangting landed at Ludao Airport at 9:30 in the morning, and then they were led to a waiting area by the staff.
Today, the people here obviously attach great importance to this. There is an office director in charge of Baodao affairs and a deputy minister in charge of unified recruitment. Because there will be veterans from Baodao returning home today, there are also senior officials.
The Fujian province is also of high standard. The squad leaders of the four major leadership groups in the province are here, as are the ministers in charge of the United Front Work Department of the Provincial Party Committee, and all the members of the four major groups in Ludao are here.
Li Jianhui is not the protagonist today. All the people present are waiting for the arrival of ten o'clock. According to the flight plan, the flight from Taoyuan to Ludao will arrive at 10 o'clock.
Originally, according to the plan, there is currently only one flight per day, but because many people from the Baodao business community will come here today, two Airbus A320s will land at Ludao Airport one after another today.
Time passed minute by minute as everyone waited, and it was almost ten o'clock. Everyone also saw the plane begin to slowly land on the runway of Ludao Airport.
Many TV stations also focused their cameras on the landing plane, and reporters also began to explain to the audience to record this historic scene.
The two passenger planes slid onto the tarmac one after another. As the door of the first passenger plane slowly opened, the first person to step out was an old man who was already over seventy years old.
Xue Jiliang, maybe this name is not familiar to everyone, but his eldest brother is definitely well known to the world. The battle to defend Star City showed the blood and dignity of this country and nation. This battle was personally directed by this eldest brother.
In addition to the staff of Xiangjiang Airlines, all the passengers on the passenger plane he was on were retired veterans who had participated in the resistance against foreign invasion. Including him, there were a total of 210 people.
There are people from Sichuan and Sichuan, people from Hunan Province, people from Hubei Province, people from Guizhou Province, and people from Guangdong Province, as well as people from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Henan Province, and Fujian Province.
Compared to Li Jianhui, Su Jiangting is much more emotional. Especially today's scene made her feel the need to do something.
On behalf of the Military Commission, Mr. Geng solemnly paid a military salute to these retired veterans and said at the same time: "Welcome everyone home, and thank you for your sacrifice for the nation and the territorial integrity of the country.
Please don’t have any worries in your heart. It is only natural to go back to your hometown to visit your relatives. No organization or personnel will stop you, let alone anyone to make things difficult for you.
If you want to return to your hometown to settle down, we will do our best to coordinate and help so that everyone can return to their roots."
Xue Jiliang still didn't calm down at this time, and said with some excitement: "Thank you very much for not caring about all the grievances in the past, so that we wanderers who are far away from home can return to our hometown.
Please rest assured that we are now just ordinary old people. We come back just hoping to see our living relatives again and to burn incense at the graves of our deceased relatives. We will strictly abide by your rules.
All kinds of rules and regulations.”
Later, the director of the Office in charge of Taiwan Affairs also made a vocal promise to these veterans who returned home to visit relatives that the local government would assist them in returning to their hometowns and find their relatives as much as possible.
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Compared with these veterans, the people who got off the second passenger plane were relatively calm.
Although the Baodao business community did not come out in full force this time, at least half of the famous business figures came.
Gu Zhenfu, Chairman of Huaxin Holdings, Lin Tingsheng, Chairman of Datong Holdings, Wang Yongqing, Chairman of Formosa Plastics Holdings and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Donghua Petrochemical, Lin Yishou, Chairman of Huaxing Group, Wei Yingzhou, Chairman of Ting Hsin Group, Chairman of Hon Hai Technology Group
Guo Taiming and other members of the Tung Wah Association and members of the Pro-Tung Wah Association.
There are also influential figures in Taiwan’s business circles such as the chairman of Yulon Group, the chairman of Uni-President Group, and the chairman of Tainan Industrial Group.
The leaders present also expressed a warm welcome to these people and promised these people that the door of the domestic market will always be open to Baodao enterprises, and their enjoyment policies will be the same as those of Xiangjiang Lisboa enterprises. They will never be treated as Baodao enterprises just because they are Baodao enterprises.
Discrimination.
At the same time, we also hope that Baodao enterprises can build a bridge for cross-strait business exchanges and promote the prosperity and development of cross-strait trade.
Gu Zhenfu responded: "We have a huge market with a population of more than one billion. Especially since the reform and opening up, the economy here has grown rapidly and countless foreign investments have poured in.
We Baodao Enterprises have long been interested in entering this area. We were previously unable to do so due to some historical reasons, but now we are finally waiting for the light to come.
We came here this time hoping to use Ludao as the starting point for our investment, strengthen cross-strait economic cooperation and exchanges, and promote the common development of the cross-strait economy."
At noon that day, the Ludao government specially hosted a banquet for the veterans who had returned here and the merchants who had come to Ludao.
At the investment promotion meeting in the afternoon, Ludao executives introduced the domestic economic development and huge market to Baodao merchants, and also introduced Ludao's unique advantages over Baodao enterprises.
Li Jianhui, as a guest representative, also made a speech.
“Since the reform and opening up in the Mainland, economic development has continued to accelerate, people’s material living standards have also continued to improve, and the market size has continued to expand.
The mainland government is also actively changing its functions, actively promoting local economic development, and providing comprehensive services for foreign investment, so that our industrial investment can avoid delays due to government reasons as much as possible.
Moreover, the labor costs here are lower than those of the Four Asian Tigers, and our compatriots share the same origin as us, and we also share the same hard-working qualities and obedience.
After several years of development, this is the best place for our production companies to invest. It can not only reduce our production costs, but also enable us to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results with the local area.
Especially Ludao, as the only special economic zone in East China, has unique advantages in terms of economic policy and geographical location."
Baodao's business community, which has long been eyeing this market, came with sincerity this time. Even without Li Jianhui's speech, they would still talk about Ludao Special Economic Zone as their key investment area.
At the investment promotion meeting that afternoon, Ting Hsin Group, Uni-President Group, Taiwan Cement Corporation, Hsinchu Bank, Datong Holdings, etc. reached multiple cooperation agreements or investment intention agreements with Ludao.
One of the largest cooperations is the joint venture between Huaxin Holdings, Datong Holdings, Formosa Plastics Holdings and the Ludao Government to build a commercial building with a total investment of HK$3 billion, initially named Strait Building.
Baodao's two major food and beverage giants, Ting Hsin Group and Uni-President Group, will also establish a food and beverage production base in Ludao. The two companies are expected to bring more than 10,000 jobs to Ludao.
Both the leaders of Fujian Province and the senior officials of Ludao were very satisfied with today's investment fair.
And they know very well that this is just the beginning. As time develops, countless Baodao companies will choose to invest in Ludao.