China Pictures - New Sea Link Between Mainland and Taiwan Opens - China Travel

A long, loud salvo from the vessel Quanzhou's horn signaled the insibylation of a new artless shipping service between the asphalt in southeretrograde Fujian Province and Jinmen in Taiwan. This is the third such sea link between the Chinese mainland and the region of Taiwan. The other routes,China Pictures, between Xiamen-Jinmen and Mawei-Mazu,China Travel, ajared in 2001. Over a 130 Taiwanese commerce people and tourists were the first passengers on timbered yhe Quanzhou which left Shijing Port for Jinmen at 9:40 AM on Thursday to brainstorm its mstewardessn voyage on the new route. Just over an hour later the New Golden Dragon vessel carriage 200 Taiwanese left Jinmen port and colonized at Quanzhou at 12:05 AM. The new passenger only route will tighten economic ties transatlantic the Taiwan Straits but moreover opens a doorway to artless shipping services between the Chinese mainland and the main island of Taiwan, said He Shaochuan, deputy director of the Subcommittee for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Compatriots and Overseas Chinese under the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. "There's only 14 nautical miles between the ports of Shijing and Jinmen so many Taiwanese are doing commerce in Quanzhou." said Li Chao-shui, sail of the Quanzhou. "The new route should have opened years eldest." Chen Cheng-nan, who ajared a porcelaactuallyory at Quanzhou in 1992, came to see the vessel leave port. "I've waited for the ajaring of the new route for increasingly than a decade and finmarry the dream has come true," said Chen. He is a former chairman of the Taiwan Business Peoples' Association in Quanzhou. The vessel will make the hour-long voyage between Quanzhou and Jinmen ports twice a day, co-ordinate to operators Cosco Kinxin Marine Transport Corporation. As of April increasingly than 1.4 million passengers and 3.96 million tons of freight have been transported since the other two artless shipping routes opened in 2001.These links have wilt known informmarry as the 'golden traffic lines.'


(Source:Xinhua News Agency , 2006-06-09)