CAUGHT UNAWARE? As the Haicang District government used a travel agency as an intermediary, the Taiwanese might not have known what work they were hired to do
Taipei Times
Date: Dec 30, 2018
By: Chung Li-hua / Staff reporter
The Ministry of the Interior (MOI) has determined that Taiwanese working as
The Ministry of the Interior logo is displayed at the ministry in Taipei in an undated photograph. Photo: Chen Yu-fu, Taipei Times
assistants to community directors in China have breached the Act Governing Relations Between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area (臺灣地區與大陸地區人民關係條例).
At the 10th Straits Forum in Xiamen, China, in June, 35 young Taiwanese took jobs as assistants to community directors in Xiamen’s Haicang District.
A notice published by the district government’s civil affairs bureau said that the position was open to Taiwanese aged 45 or younger who have a college degree and support the so-called “1992 consensus,” as well as the peaceful development of cross-strait relations and the reinvigoration of the Zhonghua minzu (中華民族, “Chinese ethnic group”).
Those selected would earn 150,000 yuan (US$21,803) per year and would be in charge of village planning, collecting information about villages’ histories and gauging public opinion, as well as promoting Chinese culture, the notice said.
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