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Cross-Straits exchanges widen with business
By Bao Daozu (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-07-15 06:03
Fair officials chose Shanghai because of the huge consumption of produce
there 10,000 tons of vegetables and 3,500 tons of fruit per day.
One local official said the municipality could someday be rewarded with a
stake in the cross-Straits business.
"Shanghai could be a hub for future Taiwanese produce imports, given its
large consumption capability and geographical location," said Yan Shengxiong,
vice-director of the Shanghai Municipal Agriculture Commission.
For now, however, the tariff-free fruits will only be available only at the
fair, as the Taiwan authorities have not responded to the central government's
May promise to allow tariff-free imports.
Before the show, because there are currently no direct links across the
Taiwan Straits, the fruit had to be shipped through third ports such as Hong
Kong. But yesterday, Mawei Port in Fuzhou, capital of Fujian Province, handled
its first sizable Taiwan fruit transfer and sent it on to Shanghai.
Another goal of the fair is to provide a platform to expand cross-Straits
agricultural investment and trade, said Yu Yongwei, director of the exhibition
organizing committee.
That is something in which Fuzhou also intends to have a stake. It plans to
develop into a transfer station and distribution centre to make it easier and
quicker for Taiwanese fruit to reach the mainland market.
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