180,000 Cantonese are expected to visit TW this year
A welcoming ceremony for the first group of participants in a program called "Guangdong tourists visiting Taiwan" was held in Taipei yesterday (August 16). It is a key event of the Taiwan-Guangdong Week. Our journalist Lihui reports from Taiwan:"
There are 2,500 tourists participating in this first trip and Guangdong Governor Huang Huahua revealed that more travelers are expected to visit Taiwan later this year.
"Over 10,000 more tourists will visit Taiwan from now until the end of this month. So altogether, that's 20,000 tourists in August alone. Last year, the number of Guangdong visitors to Taiwan reached 125,000, accounting for 1/5 of the Chinese mainland's total number of visitors to the island. This year the number is expected to exceed 180,000."
Currently, mainlanders can only travel to Taiwan in tour groups. One tourist hoped individual travel to Taiwan will be soon possible:
"it's more convenient to travel individually. So that we can stay as long as we like and see more scenic spots."
Industrial transfer achieved 70 billion yuan output
In the first half of this year, the 34 industrial transfer parks in Guangdong have achieved an output of nearly 70 billion Yuan. This figure was announced yesterday (August 16) at a conference on industrial transfer. As of June, the industrial transfer parks have employed 426,000 workers, a dramatic increase of about 25% from the same period of last year.
GD forecast with Storm and high temperature
Over the next 3 days, the weather in Guangdong will be changeable and unstable. The central and southern parts are forecast with thunderstorms and heavy rain, while the northern part should see high temperatures.