Residents of more cities eligible to visit Taiwan_美文

Residents of more cities eligible to visit Taiwan

Before June 2011, mainlanders could only travel to the island as part of tour groups, business trips, academic visits and trips related to family affairs. According to the Association for Tourism Exchange Across the Taiwan Straits, individual mainland tourists to Taiwan surged 553 percent in 2017 from the previous year.

The number of Chinese mainlanders traveling to Taiwan as individual tourists from January to May totaled 166,000, an increase of 237 percent year-on-year. By the end of May, 385,800 mainlanders had traveled to the island as individual tourists.

Questions:

1. How many cities on the mainland will allow individual tourists to travel to Taiwan?

2. When did Taiwan first open its doors to individual tourists from the mainland?

3. Dai Shugeng is a professor of economics at which university?

Answers:

1. 26.

2. June 28, 2011.

3. Xiamen University.

About the broadcaster:

Lance Crayon is a videographer and editor with China Daily. Since living in Beijing he has worked for China Radio International (CRI) and Global Times. Before moving to China he worked in the film industry in Los Angeles as a talent agent and producer. He has a B.A. in English from the University of Texas at Arlington.