Overview
- China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee formally designated October 25 as the Commemoration Day of Taiwan’s Restoration, instructing state-led observances.
- Beijing staged the inaugural observance on October 25 with a 500-person meeting at the Great Hall of the People and a reception at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse.
- CPPCC chairman Wang Huning called for joint efforts across the strait to advance reunification and said there is no room for “Taiwan independence” in any form.
- The reception, organized by the Party’s Taiwan Work Office and the State Council’s Taiwan Affairs Office, featured Song Tao’s assertion that the new day upholds the one-China principle and counters separatism and external interference.
- Guests from Taiwan and overseas Chinese expressed support for the move and visited an exhibition in Beijing highlighting resistance to Japanese rule and the 1945 surrender in Taipei.