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    Beijing official asks media on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to push forward reunification

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    Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs chief received Taiwan media representatives and urged them to contribute to the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations amid growing tensions across the Strait. Taiwan Strait.

    Song Tao, director of the Taiwan Affairs Office in Beijing, said media professionals on both sides should “fulfill their social responsibilities, strengthen mutual understanding between compatriots on both sides, and build a common consensus that both sides are Chinese”.

    “(They) should continue to make new contributions to the peaceful and integrated development of cross-strait relations,” he said at the fifth cross-strait media summit in Beijing on Thursday.

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    Mainland state media Xinhua said more than 110 media representatives and scholars from both sides of the Strait attended the event, which was themed “Cross-Strait media integration and development in a new landscape.” “.

    On Thursday afternoon, Song met with Taiwanese media representatives. He said media from both sides should adhere to objective reporting and fair commentary and “firmly promote cross-Strait exchanges and integrated development, as well as advance the reunification of the motherland,” Xinhua said.

    In his speech to the event’s main forum on Thursday, Song emphasized President that of Xi Jinping recent call to promote cultural exchanges between the two parties.
    Xi, who last month made an inspection trip to Fujian – a southern province facing Taiwan – said efforts should be made to “strengthen a shared sense of national and cultural identity among fellow Taiwanese.”

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