China firmly opposes the recent Group of Seven (G7) foreign ministers' statement on Taiwan province of China, which interferes in China's internal affairs under the pretext of supporting the region's participation in international organizations, a Chinese mainland spokesman said on Wednesday.
Chen Binhua, spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, made the statement at a press conference in Beijing in response to the G7 statement claiming to "oppose any unilateral attempts to change the status quo in the Taiwan Strait by force or coercion."
"We firmly oppose the acts of certain countries to make irresponsible remarks on the Taiwan question in their so-called 'statement' in gross interference in China's internal affairs. There is only one China in the world, and Taiwan is part of China. This is the true status quo across the Taiwan Strait," Chen said.
He said the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities in Taiwan make "the biggest" source of instability across the Taiwan Strait.
"The DPP authorities stubbornly adhere to its 'Taiwan independence' secessionist stance and continually collude with external forces to seek secession through provocation. They are the saboteurs to the status quo across the Taiwan Strait and the biggest source of instability in the region. If certain countries genuinely wish for peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait, they should uphold the one-China principle and support China's peaceful reunification, rather than challenge the principle and stir up trouble on the Taiwan question," Chen said.
"Regarding the participation of China's Taiwan region in international organizations, we have maintained a consistent and clear stance -- such matters must be handled in accordance with the one-China principle," he added.
China opposes G7 statement on Taiwan region: spokesman
China opposes G7 statement on Taiwan region: spokesman
China's domestically developed C919 large passenger aircraft began flight transport service on two new routes on Sunday.
At 11:19 on Sunday, a C919 aircraft smoothly landed at the Shenyang Taoxian International Airport in Shenyang City, the capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province, from Shanghai in east China some 1,000 kilometers away, marking the C919's first commercial flight in northeast China. The airport celebrated the occasion with a water salute.
"The seats are very spacious, and the flight experience is excellent," said a passenger.
"Flying on a homegrown plane feels especially smooth. I took the inaugural C919 flight to Chengdu, and unexpectedly, within a year, more than a dozen routes have been launched. I think the airline operations in our country are particularly impressive," said another passenger.
The other new air route opened on the day for the C919 is the one from northwest China's Xi'an City to south China's Guangzhou City about 1,400 kilometers away.
The Xi'an-Guangzhou service became the third domestic air route operated from Xi'an to use the C919, following China Eastern Airlines' earlier introduction of this aircraft on its Xi'an-Beijing and Xi'an-Shanghai routes. This also means that the Xianyang International Airport in Xi'an has become a major airport in China in terms of flights performed by the C919.
Notably, China Eastern Airlines in January 2025 started using the C919 jetliner for regular flights between Shanghai in east China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in the country's south -- which is the airline's first scheduled commercial flight service to Hong Kong using the C919.
The C919 is a narrow-body passenger aircraft with a maximum capacity of 192 seats. It is China's first self-developed trunk jetliner, built in accordance with international airworthiness standards and featuring independently registered intellectual property rights.
China initiated the C919 project in 2007, and it was developed by the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd. (COMAC). The first C919 aircraft rolled off the production line in Shanghai in November 2015.
China's homegrown C919 aircraft begins to serve two new domestic air routes
