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2018/06/10 11:50:08瀏覽1019|回應3|推薦13

On 2nd day of June, my wife and I, as members of a tour group, arrived at Changsha Airport after two hours flight.  Changsha(長沙), as in the lower position of second-tier cities in China, is the provincial capital of Hunan.  The airport gave us an impression of its vastness but yet to be pending further elegant interior decor.  However, it was the immigration impressed me with great surprise and pleasure. 

You know, I have visited Mainland many a time before.  The visitors from Taiwan used to pass the immigration through a special area: "Chinese Inhibitants of Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan".  Not this time, maybe not any more.  When our tour guide announced that all of us must pass the immigration through the lanes of "China Nationals" same as those returned Mainlanders, with some reluctance he said that we "could not help it" but to accept this "new" arrangement.  Well, he did not have to feel that way.  Arent we from Republic of "China"?  If we are not China nationals, then who else we are? 

That is a significant change!  Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan are all territories of China, so their inhibitants must be treated as China nationals.  The only differerence is the travelling documents they are holding.  For Mainlanders, they are holding PRC passports, while for the inhibitants from Taiwan, the so-called "ID for Taiwan Compatroit".  It is absolutely no need of specializing a designated area in the immigration for China nationals other than Mainlanders. 

P.S  Most of the tour members are my wifes erstwhile colloagues, and they are all with higher quality.  So they did not react to what the tour guide said at all.                   

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2018/06/11 10:03
It's great to know! Thanks! The Canadian Postal Office would only accept Taiwan, not Republic of China started some 40 yrs. ago.
Retiredbum(kkuo0810) 於 2018-06-11 12:12 回覆:
That means Taiwan postal office is under the jurisdiction of China.

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2018/06/10 14:12

應該是五年前(時間過得真快),我第一次申請證券交易帳戶,申請所需的文件除了通行證外,還有中華民國的身分證正本。

承辦人員看這身分證當然覺得新鮮有趣,對於年份感覺困擾。我聽辦公人員對話時,稱我的身分證時「民國」的身分證。我聽了心裏也覺得有趣。


Retiredbum(kkuo0810) 於 2018-06-11 12:10 回覆:
We are going to have an ID without any indication of ROC in Taiwan that DPP administration is preparing to issue. Well, that is to pave the way for the future use of "ID for Taiwan compatriot". Ha!

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2018/06/10 13:19

I admire the new immigration approach which is long overdue, although the "immigration" seems a wrong vocabulary adopted.

Well, if you really think that you are from the Republic of China, then you maybe a "兩國論者".  Be careful, my friend. 大笑  

By the way, shame on the tour guide.


Retiredbum(kkuo0810) 於 2018-06-10 13:41 回覆:
Thanks a lot! Yeah, I know that trap: Two Nations Theory. So I added quotation marks onto China in the Republic of China.