Global Times
Date: 2019/3/10

A view of Pingtan county, East China’s Fujian Province File photo: Li Xuanmin/GT

Several members of China’s top political advisory body are preparing to joint propose a high-speed rail link between the city of Beijing and Taiwan island during the two sessions to facilitate cross-Straits communication, according to a report by thepaper.cn on Thursday.

In the proposal, members of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) suggested accelerating the construction of a high-speed rail link from Beijing to Taiwan, building the western section of the underwater tunnel across the Taiwan Straits and completing the construction of an undersea tunnel to an artificial island in the Taiwan Straits from Pingtan county in East China’s Fujian Province.
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