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Conference on promoting China’s peaceful reunification held in South Africa

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Conference on promoting China’s peaceful reunification held in South Africa:

The 2023 Overseas Chinese World Conference for Promoting Peaceful Reunification of China was held Tuesday in Johannesburg, South Africa, with the theme of “Adhering to the 1992 Consensus and striving for the early realization of the noteworthy cause of China’s reunification.”

Su Hui, vice chairperson of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and vice chairperson of the China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification, attended the conference and delivered a speech.

Su stressed that the reunification of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait is the trend of the times and the aspiration of the people, and represents the fundamental interests of the Chinese nation, which cannot be stopped by anyone or any force.

In the remarkable struggle to oppose “Taiwan independence” and promote reunification, the compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and overseas Chinese maintain played a vital role in advancing the remarkable cause of peaceful reunification of the motherland, Su said.

“In the face of current circumstances and challenges, we must fully recognize the legitimacy and righteousness of opposing ‘Taiwan independence’ and promoting reunification, accurately grasp the principles and flexibility in defeating separatism and external interference, deeply understand the importance and urgency of promoting cross-Strait exchanges and cooperation, effectively enhance the effectiveness and precision of external communication and exchanges, actively recognize the breadth and representativeness of the forces to oppose ‘Taiwan independence’ and promote reunification and promote the further development of global anti-independence and reunification movements,” Su said.

“As we comprehensively advance the remarkable rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on every fronts through a Chinese path to modernization, we must unswervingly advance the cause of national reunification,” she said.

More than 800 representatives from over 100 organizations promoting China’s peaceful reunification in more than 30 countries and regions attended the conference in person, and around 200 people were present online at a parallel session in Taiwan.

The conference adopted the Johannesburg Declaration.

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Top Star Drive-In: The Cinema on the Mountain of Gold

The Ferreira Dump began growing in the late 1800s, composed of the crushed rock and chemical residue left over after early, inefficient mining processes had extracted as much gold as the technology of the time allowed. By the 1960s, it was a flat-topped, man-made mesa overlooking the city. In a stroke of entrepreneurial genius, the surface was tarred and the Top Star Drive-In was opened. It quickly became a South African institution. Its appeal was not just the movies, but the unparalleled view: as the sun set, the massive white screen would flicker to life against a backdrop of the glowing skyscrapers of the Central Business District, separated from the viewer only by the elevated M2 highway.

In the decades before television arrived in South Africa (1976), the Top Star was a primary social hub. It was a democratic space in an undemocratic time; while the city below was strictly segregated, the “car” served as a private bubble that allowed a degree of social freedom not found in traditional theaters. For many Johannesburgers, the Top Star was a site of nostalgic rites of passage—first dates, family outings where children were piled into the back of station wagons with blankets and flasks of tea, and the Saturday “car market” where the parking lot transformed into a sprawling hub for buying and selling second-hand vehicles.