Kinmen starts importing Chinese water

UTMOST GOODWILL: County Commissioner Chen Fu-hai explained his vision of ‘three new links’ with China, but the Cabinet said the idea needs to be dicussed

Taipei Times
Date: Aug 06, 2018
By: Lu Yi-hsuan  /  Staff reporter, with CNA

Kinmen County yesterday began importing water from China’s Fujian Province to

Kinmen County commissioner Chen Fu-hai, second left, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Yang Chen-wu, third right, front row, Fujian Provincial Government secretary-general Weng Mingzhi, fourth left, Kinmen County Councilor Chen Tsang-chiang, fifth left, and other officials yesterday hold balloons as a water gate is switched on during a ceremony in Kinmen to mark the start of water supplies from China’s Fujian Province. Photo: Wu Cheng-ting, Taipei Times

stabilize its water supply, while county Commissioner Chen Fu-hai (陳福海) said he hopes to boost bilateral ties with the Chinese province through what he called “three new links.”

Separate ceremonies were held in Kinmen and China’s Jinjiang City to mark the opening of the water supply system, with Chen and other local politicians attending the ceremony in Kinmen.

The county government held the ceremony as scheduled, despite calls by the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) to delay it after Beijing pressured members of the East Asian Olympic Committee to revoke Taichung’s right to host the East Asian Youth Games next year.

The “water link” — one of Chen’s “three new links” — is the result of an agreement that Taiwan and China signed in 2015 to provide Kinmen with water for 30 years, Chen said.    [FULL  STORY]

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