上海金山海峽兩岸青年創業基地

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Brenda Goh and Jess Macy Yu, China tries to charm tech-savvy Taiwanese youth as political ties fray. Reuters, Feb 7, 2018.
https://www.reuters.com/article/ ... -fray-idUSKBN1FR0LB

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"A start-up incubator on the outskirts of Shanghai is laying out sweeteners for budding entrepreneurs: Free office space, subsidized housing rent, tax breaks and in some cases, cash of up to 200,000 yuan ($31,211.47).  The main condition? Be from Taiwan.  The center, formally called the Jinshan Cross Strait Youth Entrepreneurship Base 上海金山海峽兩岸青年創業基地 [so named due to its location in 上海市金山区], is part of the new face of China's approach towards Taiwan

"Taiwan student protests in 2014 over a trade pact with China, which became known as the Sunflower Movement, caught Beijing's attention.  'Before 2015, the Chinese mainland government targeted mainly commercial or business interests in Taiwan,' said Zhang Zhexin, a research fellow on Taiwan issues at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies.

"There are now at least 53 incubators across China, including in cities such as Deyang in China's central Sichuan province and Shenyang in the country's northeastern rust belt, according to a list on the website of the Taiwan Affairs Office

"The Jinshan Cross Strait Youth Entrepreneurship Base is in an office block in the heart of a sprawling industrial zone 上海金山工业 (园) 区. * * * 'We want to be a window to young Taiwanese to help them understand the mainland,' said Dong Ji, deputy party committee secretary of the industrial zone * * * Although the centers are open to other mainland and foreign companies, they offer the most financial incentives to those from Taiwan, he said. The facility outside Shanghai now is host to 165 projects, 40 of which are Taiwanese.

"Other policies also focus on Taiwan's youth. In July, China's Ministry of Education published a directive on its website asking its universities to relax entrance requirements for Taiwan students.

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