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People
from both side of
Taiwan Strait
made 278,000 visits via the "mini three links" in the first 10 months
of 2006, an increase of 18.3 percent over the same period of 2005, according to
Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) figures
released on December 30.
The "mini three links" refer to the postal, transport and trade
links between
Taiwan
's outlying islands of Kinmen and Matsu, and
Xiamen
and
Fuzhou
harbors in
China
's
Fujian
Province
. The links were implemented in 2001.
Among the visits,
Taiwan
residents made 245,000 visits to
China
via the links in the first 10 months, accounting for 88 percent of the total,
while Chinese residents made 32,000 visits to
Taiwan
in the same period, representing a year-on-year growth of 109.5 percent.
During this period, Taiwanese and Chinese ships made 3,629 voyages via
the links, a decrease of 23 voyages over the year-earlier period, with Taiwanese
ships heading to China increasing by 483 voyages, while Chinese ships visiting
Taiwan decreased by 506 voyages. Of the figure, the number of voyages from
Fuzhou
to
Matsu
in the first 10 months reached only 464, a year-on-year decrease of 647.
Referring to cross-strait postal and telecommunication links, statistics
of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications show that people of both
sides made 530 million telephone calls in the first nine months of this year, an
increase of 15.1 percent over the same period of last year, with the time of
telephone communication reaching a total of 1.79 billion minutes, a year-on-year
growth of 10.3 percent.
However, cross-strait communications by letters, affected by the
popularity of telephone calls and e-mail, shrank by 25.5 percent over the same
period of 2005.
(Source: Central News Agency)
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