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Hu meets with New Party chairman
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-07-12 14:24
Taiwan's New Party leader stressed on Tuesday that all the Chinese
people across the Taiwan Straits should devote more efforts to promoting the
nation's reunification cause.
Yok Mu-ming,
chairman of Taiwan's New Party on a mainland visit, speaks at the Renmin
University of China in Beiing July 12, 2005, calling on Chinese to work
hard for reunification. Yok is scheduled to meet with Hu Jintao, general
secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Tuesday afternoon.
[newsphoto] | "The reunification has not yet been
achieved, all the Chinese compatriots should spare no effort to this end," said
Yok Mu-ming, chairman of the small opposition party in Taiwan when delivering a
speech at the Beijing-based People's University of China.
Yok is heading a 30-member delegation for an eight-day journey to the
mainland with the theme of commemorating the 60th anniversary of China's victory
over the war against the Japanese aggression from last Wednesday.
He said the aim of the delegation's trip to the Chinese mainland is to
promote the nation's revitalization and arouse patriotism and nationalism among
the young generation.
![Yok Mu-ming gestures while delivering a speech at the People's University of China in Beijing July 12, 2005. [newsphoto]](xin_20070212143711891415.jpg)
Yok Mu-ming gestures while delivering a speech
at the People's University of China in Beijing July 12, 2005.
[newsphoto] |
In his speech, Yok recalled the journey in the past seven days. His
delegation paid homage to the Huanghuagang 72 Martyrs' Cemetery in Guangzhou, a
city in south China's Guangdong Province,the first leg of its four-city trip.
It also visited the Mausoleum of Dr. Sun Yat-sen in Nanjing, capital of east
China's Jiangsu Province, and offered condolences to victims of the Nanjing
Massacre at the Memorial Hall of Compatriots Murdered in Nanjing.
During their stay in Dalian, a port city in northeast China's Liaoning
Province, Yok and his entourage visited some historical sites including the
Museum of Lushun Japanese and Russian Prison and Wanzhong Cemetery, a site in
commemoration of the Chinese people's resistance against Japanese invasion.
"The wartime history tells us that only unity can bring a country prosperity
and a nation rejuvenation," Yok said.
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