Situated on both sides of the Bosphorus Strait that divides Asia and Europe, Istanbul is the only city in the world that sits across the two continents.

伊斯坦布尔位于分隔亚欧的博斯普鲁斯海峡两岸，是世界上唯一横跨两大洲的城市。

Below the Swina strait are deposits of fine-medium sand with gravel.

Analysts believe that the pipeline, which allows China to import crude oil from the Middle East and Africa without having to go through the Strait of Malacca, plays a significant role in China and Myanmar's infrastructure and trade development plan.

It was considered a major milestone for Sinopec and seen by the company as key to its global expansion plans considering its closeness to the Strait of Malacca, which is also why most key oil companies set up plants in Singapore.

The spokesperson also noted that after the mainland had achieved a smooth transition in its COVID-19 response, the personnel travel and exchanges in various fields between the two sides of the Strait have picked up quickly.

The facts revealed that compatriots on the two sides of the Strait share the same roots, culture and ethnic identity, and it is their natural emotion and simple desire to communicate and carry out exchanges and cooperation, a demand that the Democratic Progressive Party authorities can not thwart, Chen said.

One of the most notable additions to China's vast high-speed rail network in 2023 was the Fuzhou-Xiamen-Zhangzhou railway, the country's fastest cross-sea high-speed rail, where trains reach a maximum speed of 350 km per hour along the west coast of the Taiwan Strait.

President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called on entrepreneurs on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to join hands to promote the peaceful and integrated development of cross-Strait relations.

Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks in a congratulatory letter sent to the 2023 annual conference of the summit for entrepreneurs across the Taiwan Strait.

As a crucial platform for communication and cooperation between enterprises and businesspeople from both sides of the Strait, the summit has played an important role in fostering economic cooperation and deepening integrated development across the Strait, he said.

Xi said it is hoped that the summit can unite business communities from both sides of the Strait to further contribute to the growth of the economy of the Chinese nation, the improvement of compatriots' well-being and the advancement of national reunification.

He stressed the need for compatriots across the Strait to make joint efforts to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, thus opening up broad prospects for cross-Strait economic cooperation.

Guangdong province will continuously explore new cooperative models and optimize the development environment for Taiwan investors, and build Dongguan into an area of deepening innovative collaboration across the Taiwan Strait, said a senior government official of the province.

The local government will make Dongguan, a major global production center, a new base for scientific and technological innovation cooperation between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan province, creating a new engine for industrial innovation and development across the Taiwan Strait in the coming months, said Zhu Wei, deputy director of the Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission.

The 14th Dongguan Taiwan Famous Products Fair, to be held next month in Dongguan, Guangdong province, will strengthen exchanges, cooperation and friendship across the Taiwan Strait and help promote the transformation of enterprises from the island.

- At the 15th Straits Forum on Saturday, Taiwan businesspeople expressed a stronger willingness to do business on the Chinese mainland, as the mainland continues to promote goodwill through economic and cultural exchanges across the Taiwan Strait.

The forum was jointly held by the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, Fujian provincial government and 82 institutions and organizations from across the Strait.

"With new opportunities, Taiwan businesspeople should work together to continue playing a role in promoting economic and cultural exchanges across the Strait," Wu said.

As Baerbock expressed concerns on the Taiwan question, Qin said the fundamental cause of tension in the Taiwan Strait lies in separatist activities by "Taiwan independence" forces and external forces that support them, and "'Taiwan independence' and peace cannot coexist".

- The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee's proposals for formulating a new five-year development plan and long-range objectives open up tremendous opportunities for enterprises from both the mainland and Taiwan, said entrepreneurs attending the 2020 conference of the summit for entrepreneurs across the Taiwan Strait.

Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference, held in the coastal city of Xiamen in Fujian province and Taipei via video link Wednesday, attracted more than 700 attendees from both sides of the Strait.

Guo Jinlong, president of the mainland-based council of the summit, said that as the country transitions into a new stage of development, enterprises from across the Strait should seize the opportunities to develop further.

The passenger and cargo ship, crossing the Qiongzhou Strait, was scheduled to arrive at Xinhai Port in Haikou within the hour.

Since its opening in September 2020, Xuwen Port's efficiency as the main shipping channel of the Qiongzhou Strait has gradually become prominent, and more than 90 percent of livelihood materials and one third of passengers to Hainan are transported through the Qiongzhou Strait.

The first-ever hydropower delivery to Hainan by the company, across a strait, also marks a historic watershed because the island was previously isolated from the main grid, he added.

I still feel I've explored only a strait in a vast ocean.

Hainanconcept A shares surged on Wednesday afternoon and drove the Shanghai Composite Index back above 2600 points before the close, while Hainan Haiqi Transportation Group Co Ltd and Hainan Strait Shipping Co Ltd both increased to the 10 percent daily trading limit.

The fund will target areas including high-quality industrial development and cooperation across the Taiwan Strait, start-up and upgrading of Taiwan enterprises and cooperation of young entrepreneurs on both sides, said the agreement between the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office and the CDB.

Noting that realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and China's complete reunification need joint efforts of compatriots on both sides of the Strait, Wang called on social groups of Taiwan compatriots to grasp the trend of the times, adhere to the right direction for the development of cross-Strait relations and promote integrated cross-Strait development.

He also called for efforts to resolutely oppose "Taiwan independence" separatist activities and external interference to safeguard peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.

He urged the council to fully and faithfully implement the Party's overall policy for resolving the Taiwan question in the new era, and make greater efforts to promote exchanges and interactions across the Taiwan Strait.

Song called on the ATIEM to play its advantages in promoting exchanges and cooperation in various fields across the Taiwan Strait and guiding Taiwan compatriots to work in unity with their mainland counterparts to pool great strength for realizing national reunification and rejuvenation.

Founded in April 2007, the ATIEM has been committed to uniting and leading Taiwan enterprises in taking part in mainland's economic and social development and has made important contributions to maintaining peace and stability across the Strait, advancing the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations, and deepening the integrated development across the Strait.

The PLA will resolutely safeguard China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as the peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.

"Taiwan independence" is absolutely irreconcilable with peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait, and it is a path to nowhere.

We once again urge the United States to abide by the one-China principle and the provisions of the three China-US joint communiques, act on its commitment of not supporting "Taiwan independence" or "two Chinas" or "one China, one Taiwan," immediately cease all forms of official interaction with Taiwan, stop upgrading its substantive exchanges with Taiwan, stop creating tensions across the Taiwan Strait, stop using Taiwan to contain China, and stop going further down the wrong and dangerous path.

Wang said over the past decade -- the first decade of the new era -- the CPC has put forward an overall policy framework for resolving the Taiwan question in the new era, promoted exchanges and cooperation across the Taiwan Strait, and resolutely opposed separatist activities aimed at "Taiwan independence" and foreign interference, thus maintaining the initiative and the ability to steer cross-Strait relations.

He said over the past five years the federations of Taiwan compatriots at various levels have played an important role in advancing the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations and deepening the integrated development of various sectors across the Taiwan Strait.

They also offered suggestions on issues including advancing coordinated development of the Yangtze River and Yellow River basins, promoting low-carbon growth, incentivizing private investment, improving tax regulation on the platform economy, ensuring high-quality employment, and deepening integrated development on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

Jiang was hailed as a statesman and an outstanding leader enjoying high prestige acknowledged by compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, who also promoted exchanges across the Strait and developed cross-Strait relations, said Chi Chia-lin, who heads the reunification alliance party in Taiwan, in a message of condolence.

Jiang also pushed the two sides of the Taiwan Strait to reach the 1992 Consensus, which embodies the one-China principle.