双语：台湾呼吁提高游客安全

　　The mainland office responsible for cross-Straits relations has urged Taiwan to improve safety across its whole tourist sector and to take measures to ensure the safety of mainland travelers.

　　负责两岸关系的大陆办事处促请台湾改善整个旅游业的安全，并采取措施确保内地旅客的安全。

　　According to local media reports, the island’s transportation authority will raise the daily quota for mainlanders from 5,000 to 6,000 and allow them to stay for 30 days rather than 15.

　　据当地媒体报道，台湾交通运输局将提高大陆游客每日配额，从每日5000人增加至每日6000人，停留时间从15天延长至30天。

　　The move comes after statistics showed a drop in the number of mainland tourists visiting over the Spring Festival holiday.

　　这一举动是在统计数据显示春节过后中国大陆游客数量下降的情况下出现的。

　　On Wednesday, An Fengshan, a spokesman for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office in Beijing, said the reason for the decline was quite clear and would only be reversed through improved cross-Straits relations.

　　星期三，安凤山，驻京国务院台湾事务办公室发言人表示，这一下降的原因是非常清楚的，只有通过改善两岸关系才能扭转该局势。

　　Relations between the mainland and Taiwan have been tense since Tsai Ing-wen took office as the island’s new leader on May 20.

　　自5月20日蔡英文就任台湾新领导人以来，大陆与台湾关系就一直处于紧张状态。

　　Tsai has failed to acknowledged the 1992 Consensus, which refers to the one-China policy, and official channels of cross-Straits communication have been suspended.

　　蔡(英文)不承认1992共识，即一个中国的政策，因此两岸交流的官方渠道就此搁置。

　　The situation was further compounded when US President Donald Trump challenged the one-China principle by taking a congratulatory call from Tsai in December shortly after he won the presidential election.

　　当美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在十二月赢得总统选举后接受了蔡英文的致电祝贺，其行为挑战了一个中国的政策，导致该局势进一步复杂化。

　　Meanwhile, on Saturday, 21 mainland tourists were injured in a bus accident in Kaohsiung, a city in southern Taiwan. The bus, carrying 25 tourists and a tour guide from the mainland, hit the edge of a tunnel after the driver took a wrong turn.

　　与此同时，星期六，21名大陆游客在台湾南部城市-高雄的一次车祸中受伤。该巴士，载有来自大陆的25名游客和1名导游，撞到隧道边缘后，司机拐错了弯。

　　The injured were taken to hospital. Everyone, apart from the tour guide who remains in hospital, has returned to the mainland, An said, adding that mainland authorities had extended their sympathies to those injured and helped handle the accident through nongovernmental tourism organizations on the two sides of the Taiwan Straits.

　　伤者被送往医院。除了导游仍在医观察外，其余游客已返回内地，安(凤山)补充到，大陆当局有抚慰受伤者，以及协助台湾海峡两岸民间旅游组织处理此次事故。