Over 60 scholars from across the Taiwan Straits, Hong Kong, Macao and overseas attended in Beijing on October 24 an academic workshop on the 60th anniversary of the recovering of Taiwan.

The workshop was jointly held by the central committee of Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League, All China Taiwanese Association, National Taiwan��Studies Society and Research Center of Cross-Strait Relations.

Zhang Kehui, vice chairman of the 10th National Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and chairman of the central committee of Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League, made a speech on the symposium.

Zhang said, Taiwan compatriots have always tied their own destinies to that of the motherland. At the do-or-die moment determining the country and nation's fates, compatriots from both sides of the Straits supported and helped each other, composing with their bloods and lives paeans one after another.

Today, facing opportunities as well as challenges, compatriots from across the Straits should join hands to create a win-win situation for a splendid future of the Chinese nation.

Wang Zaixi, deputy director of Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said in his speech that the history from Taiwan's subjecting to Japan's forced occupation to its return to the motherland, testifies the legal status and fact of Taiwan as an inalienable part of China's sacred territory. The destinies of compatriots on both sides of the Straits are closely connected with each other and no one can separate them. Close cooperation and joint efforts are needed to realize a great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Experts from across the Straits Zhang Haipeng, Deng Kongzhao, Huang Renwei, Rao Geping, Guo Junci, Wang Xiaobo and Zeng Xiangduo also made speeches at the workshop.

They think the history from Taiwan's cession to its recovery is just a history of the Chinese people's safeguarding the state sovereignty and territorial integrity as well as a history proving that Taiwan, after Japan's surrender, had returned to the motherland and been re-covered into China's territory. Although, for the more than half a century since 1949, Taiwan and the motherland have been in a state of separation, this didn��t change at all Taiwan's legal status as one part of China nor the fact that Taiwan and the mainland belong to one and the same China.

Cheng Siwei, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and head of National Taiwan Studies Society, Chen Yunlin, director of the Taiwan Work Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, as well as, deputy director Sun Yafu were also present at the workshop.

By People's Daily Online