The China Post
Date: July 22, 2016
By: Yuan-Ming Chiao
Mainland China is “extremely dissatisfied” with Taiwan’s safety measures for visiting mainland
Premier Lin Chuan, center, and local officials pay their respects to the victims of a fatal tour bus fire in Taoyuan, Thursday, July 21. (Photo Courtesy The Executive Yuan)
tourists, an official said Thursday, following the death of 26 people in a tour bus fire in Taoyuan.
The remarks were made by Association for Tourism Exchange Across the Taiwan Straits (海旅會) Secretary General Liu Kezhi (劉克智), one of nine mainland officials who arrived in Taiwan to assist the family members of those who died Tuesday in the fire — the worst incident of its kind since entry was opened to mainland Chinese tourists in 2008.
“The mainland requests that Taiwan thoroughly investigate the cause of the accident and related culpability and thoughtfully complete the work necessary to receive victims’ relatives and family members,” Liu told reporters outside a temporary shrine for the victims in Taoyuan’s Zhongli District. Family members of the deceased along with local officials arrived and were taken to the shrine by Taiwanese officials.
In response, Mainland Affairs Council (MAC, 陸委會) spokesperson Chiu Chui-cheng (邱垂正) stated that Taiwan would work hard to raise the quality of its tourism services and “examine deeply from painful experience” “problematic” parts of the sector. [FULL STORY]
