Chairman of the People First Party (PFP) in Taiwan James CY
Soong said Friday that seeking the root and remembering the origin
are important for the people across the Taiwan Straits to address
their current problems.
In his elegiac addressing to Huangdi, who was regarded as the
ancestor of all the Chinese, Soong said all the Chinese should not
forget their root and origin and both the mainland and Taiwan are
in the same family.
Soong led his PFP delegation to pay homage to the mausoleum of
Huangdi, more than 100 kilometers away from Xi'an, capital of
northwest China's Shaanxi
Province, the first leg of Soong's nine-day mainland visit.
Thousands of Xi'an residents and tourists from around the
country enthusiastically welcomed Soong and his delegation.
A middle-aged man shook hands with Soong and said, "Soong's
homage-paying to Huangdi symbolizes psychological cohesion of the
Chinese nation."
In response to the warmth of surrounding people, Soong said that
the two sides across the Straits should help each other and open a
new chapter of the great Chinese civilization.
Soong arrived in Xi'an Thursday afternoon for the mainland trip,
whose itinerary also covers Nanjing, capital of the
Kuomintang-ruled Republic of China before 1949, Shanghai, the
biggest business hub in the mainland, Changsha, capital of central
China's Hunan
Province, and the Chinese capital Beijing.
(Xinhua News Agency May 6, 2005)
