Former President Ma Ying-jeou had lunch with representatives of Taiwanese businessmen at the Peace Hotel in Shanghai today. Accompanied by Chen Yuanfeng, Deputy Director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the Mainland China, and Li Xiaodong, Deputy Director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of Shanghai Municipality, he listened to the performance of the famous jazz band. The musicians played the popular old song “Evening Fragrance”, the famous Taiwanese folk song “Wang Chunfeng”, and Ma Ying-jeou’s favorite English song “Country Road”.
The Peace Hotel witnessed the development of cross-strait relations. On October 14, 1998, SEF Chairman Koo Chen-fu and Wang Daohan held the “Koo-Wang Meeting” on the 8th floor of the Peace Hotel. The meeting reached four consensus points and opened the prelude to cross-strait political dialogue.
On the evening of February 13, 2014, the eve before the MAC delegation was about to return to Taiwan, Zhang Zhijun, then director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the Mainland China, invited Wang Yuqi and his party to have tea at the Peace Hotel in Shanghai. The two sides spoke positively of the significance of this meeting in promoting the comprehensive development of cross-strait relations, and exchanged views on the implementation of the consensus reached.
The Peace Hotel on the Bund of Shanghai is a classic of Shanghai’s old hotels, especially her roof garden has been praised as “the most romantic place in Shanghai” by people at home and abroad. A well-known elderly jazz band is active here all the year round. Its passionate style and exquisite skills; its penetrating rendering and superb performance make it famous and attract guests from far and wide.
The jazz band is composed of old musicians whose average age is over 75 years old. Known as the “evergreen trees in the art world”, the old musicians are especially good at playing those famous jazz songs in the 1930s and 1940s and famous songs from all over the world. landscape.