Taipei Shilin Night Market was originally one of the must-see destinations for mainland tourists to travel to Taiwan. Since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, a series of political manipulations by the DPP authorities have led to the continued deterioration of cross-strait relations. The normal exchanges and exchanges between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are unsustainable, and the grand occasion of Shilin Night Market has been gone forever.
Recently, a Taiwanese netizen posted a photo of the current situation of Shilin Night Market on a social platform. The empty aisle made him unable to help but sigh, "There are more bosses than customers."
Netizens posted photos of the empty situation of Shilin Night Market, lamenting that "there are more bosses than customers".
Shilin Night Market is so bleak. Su Wenshan, chairman of the Shilin Old Street Business District Prosperity Promotion Association, said: "This is an unprecedented dark period, and we are suffering from the consequences!" The survival of the night market is inseparable from customer flow and consumption. A few years ago, there were a large number of tourists from mainland China to Taiwan. Out of their preference for night market culture, it became fashionable to go to the night market to taste Taiwanese snacks and buy souvenirs. Nowadays, the number of mainland tourists to Taiwan has almost dropped to zero, and the so-called "new southward" policy implemented by the DPP authorities cannot make up for the tourists gap. Some night market practitioners admitted that in the past, several tour buses of mainland tourist tour groups parked near the night market every night, and it is difficult to see them now. Because of the visit of mainland tourists, the annual turnover of some night markets in the past was over 100 million yuan ( NT$ , the same below), but now people are gone and the money is gone. The tourism industry is really going to become a miserable industry of "Guan Guang"!
I wonder if the street artists in the night market should continue to play?
Since the Democratic Progressive Party came to power, mainland tourists have returned to zero. Just shouting slogans to fight for the economy has made many Taiwanese tourism operators and businesses unable to survive and sad. The night market is crowded with people, and street artists face two rows of "empty" benches, wonder if they should continue playing? Such a desolate scene makes Taiwanese businesses shout "Give me back my mainland customers!"
Editor-in-chief/Bohao
Edited by/Ada
Source/Comprehensive Taiwanese media
