CCTV News: China's current economic growth is changing from high-speed to high-quality. The private entrepreneurs' symposium held in February also sent a clear signal that mainland China supports private enterprises. The majority of Taiwanese businessmen and enterprises also look forward to seizing opportunities and seeking development in this wave. The reporter found from many Taiwanese-funded enterprises located in the Yangtze River Delta that they are following the requirements of the times and deeply participating in the high-quality development of the mainland.
The Yangtze River Delta region has always been a gathering place for Taiwanese businessmen and enterprises to develop in the mainland. The Shanghai-based Smike Group was founded in 1990 and started and grew stronger with the manufacturing industry. Now, the group is catching the trend of accelerated population aging in mainland China and actively transforms and devotes itself to the health care industry, and has built a service network of thousands of medical and elderly care beds in the Yangtze River Delta region.
The private economy symposium in February this year pointed out that more than 1.4 billion people mean super-large market potential, bringing many new opportunities to the development of the private economy. In this context, Taiwanese businessmen and enterprises have found their own new methods in how to participate in the domestic circulation in the high-quality development of the mainland in light of their own industrial characteristics.
The reporter noticed that the mainland actively encourages Taiwanese enterprises to integrate into the new development pattern of the mainland, and a large number of high-quality Taiwanese enterprises were allowed to list and raise funds in the mainland, with a total of 65 companies as of the beginning of 2025. Yuanzu Food Company in Shanghai is one of them. By deepening the Chinese festival culture and the concept of "fooding according to the times", the company launched festival products such as Mid-Autumn Festival snow mooncakes, Dragon Boat Festival dragon rice dumplings, and three cakes for winter, which especially during traditional festivals, driving a significant increase in overall sales.
From manufacturing to service industry, from traditional industries to emerging technology fields, we can see that Taiwanese enterprises have room for development in the mainland. Against this background, according to statistics from the Ministry of Commerce, 7,941 new Taiwanese-funded enterprises were established in mainland China in 2024, an increase of 1.6% year-on-year. At the same time, the high-quality development of the mainland has also promoted the quality improvement and upgrading of Taiwanese enterprises themselves.
Experts said that since recent years, related industries in mainland China's economic development have faced pressures of upgrading and transformation, which has also forced Taiwanese-funded enterprises to further improve industrial efficiency and competitiveness in the mainland.
It is not difficult to find from the interview that the new pattern of high-quality development in the mainland has brought tangible opportunities to Taiwanese enterprises. For example, in people's livelihood industries such as medical health, elderly care services, Taiwanese enterprises have rich experience and a broad market in the mainland. In the fields of semiconductors, artificial intelligence, etc., there is strong demand in the mainland, and Taiwanese companies have many opportunities to cooperate in depth with mainland companies. At the same time, the mainland has continuously issued various policy support, which fundamentally guarantees that Taiwanese businessmen and enterprises have great potential in the mainland.
