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Without direct flights, the two-hour flying time from Beijing to Taipei means a traveler must spend seven or eight hours in the air. Chen Yunlin, the mainland’s top official on Taiwan affairs, has made the following calculation: Since the mainland and Taiwan resumed personnel exchanges at the end of the 1980s, there have been an estimated 30 million trips made across the strait. Working on the assumption of an extra five hours for every trip, this means over 17,000 years have been wasted!
Without direct flights, the two-hour flying time from Beijing to Taipei means a traveler must spend seven or eight hours in the air. Chen Yunlin, the mainland’s top official on Taiwan affairs, has made the following calculation: Since the mainland and Taiwan resumed Personnel exchanges at the end of the 1980s, there have been an estimated 30 million trips made across the strait. Working on the assumption of an extra five hours for every trip, this means over 17,000 years has been wasted!