People’s Daily: Taichung mayor from Taiwan promotes tourism in Beijing
“Welcome to Taichung!” Taichung mayor Jason C.Hu said at a news conference Thursday in Beijing.
Hu, mayor of the third largest city in Taiwan, is in Beijing attending the World Mayors’ Forum, a three-day forum, which opened Wednesday. Themes of the forum are crisis management and disaster prevention, but Hu said his ultimate goal in Beijing is to promote travel to Taichung.
“I learnt from a recent survey that mainland people most desire to visit Jih Yue Tan, Ali Mountain …. They most desire to buy Taiwan’s local delicacies Sun-shaped cake, shortbread with pineapple juice and oolong tea,” said Hu. “Actually, Jih Yue Tan and Ali Mountain are near Taichung. Sun-shaped cake and shortbread with pineapple juice are native delicacies of Taichung.”
The Chinese mainland announced on May 20 that it will hold talks with Taiwan about opening tourism to the island. Vast numbers of mainlanders will mean a huge boom to Taiwan’s travel industry…