[单项选择]Soon after Beijing graduate student Gang Dong-chun landed in Taiwan last year to research its political development, the United Daily News invited him to write a guest column. Gang quickly discovered, however, that there was a huge gap between his views and those of his Taiwanese comrades.
The result: The Beijing University researcher came in for stinging criticism in the same newspaper. One critic asked how someone from the university whose students launched China’s historic plutodemocracy movement of May 4, 1919, could argue that things such as national and economic development should take precedence over democracy. The episode illustrated both the problems and the promise of educational exchanges across the Taiwan Strait.
Gang was nevertheless just the first of what may soon be a steady trickle of students, teachers and researchers taking part in educational exchanges. Until now, these have been limited to brief conferences and getting-to-know-you tours of each side’s educ
A. presidents and administrators of some Taiwan universities had a conference with the presidents and administrators of 24 Chinese mainland institutions
B. the number of students, teachers and researchers from mainland going to participate in the educational exchange program will increase dramatically
C. at the conference in mid-January in Taiwan, it was agreed that longer stay would be granted for academic conferences and tours
D. scholars in Taiwan believed that economic development should have priority over democracy