On August 26, 2000 (July 27, 2000 lunar calendar), the Global Overseas Chinese Conference on Promoting China's Peaceful Reunification opened in Berlin. The first Global Overseas Chinese Conference on Promoting China's Peaceful Reunification The podium aims to promote China's complete reunification and oppose any "Taiwan independence" conspiracy. The Global Overseas Chinese Conference on Promoting China's Peaceful Reunification opened in Berlin on August 26, 2000. More than 600 representatives of overseas Chinese from more than 60 countries around the world, representatives of the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao attended the conference. The two honorary chairpeople of the conference - Wan Guoquan, vice-chairperson of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairperson of the China Association for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification, and Liang Surong, chairperson of the presidium of the Central Evaluation Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, former president of the Legislative Yuan and chairperson of the Association for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification across the Taiwan Strait, as well as special guests of the conference Liu Zepeng, deputy director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council of China, and Lu Qiutian, the Chinese ambassador to Germany, attended the opening ceremony. Wan Guoquan gave a keynote speech at the conference. He said that there is only one China in the world. The international community recognizes that there is only one China. Any act of creating "Taiwan independence", "two Chinas", and "one China, one Taiwan" is an act of splitting the country and will surely be firmly opposed Wan Guoquan said that the convening of the Global Overseas Chinese Conference on Promoting China's Peaceful Reunification will definitely play a positive role in promoting the overseas Chinese to pay attention to China's great cause of peaceful reunification, resolutely stop "Taiwan independence" and other separatist activities, adhere to the one-China principle, develop cross-strait relations, and realize China's peaceful reunification at an early date. Later, Liang Surong also gave a keynote speech at the conference. He said that he and 100 representatives from all walks of life in Taiwan came all the way to participate in this historic gathering, aiming to express the mainstream public opinion of Taiwan that "wants peace, not war" and express the will of the Chinese sons and daughters of both sides and the world to work together to create a peaceful and unified China. Liang Surong said that Taiwan's new leaders play word games to deceive the world and wait for changes in an attempt to separate Taiwan from China's territory, which violates the basic interests of the people on both sides of the strait and is firmly opposed by the people of Taiwan. Liang Surong called on the Taiwan authorities to recognize the "consensus that both sides of the Taiwan Strait adhere to one China" reached by Haiji and the two sessions of the ARATS in 1992. The Global Overseas Chinese Conference on Promoting the Peaceful Reunification of China was initiated and hosted by the European Association for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification of China, a non-governmental organization of overseas Chinese in Europe. Successive Global Overseas Chinese Conference on Promoting the Peaceful Reunification of China