The map of Taiwan has been changed on common civil map apps such as Gaode and Baidu, and the three big characters of Taiwan Province have appeared on the map of the motherland's Treasure Island. What's more surprising is that Gaode map has updated the satellite map and 2D map of Taiwan Province. This level of precision is basically not very different from the mainland map. Even bus stations, hospitals, schools, clinics and convenience stores have it.
On the map of Taiwan Province, you can clearly see many specific streets named after mainland cities, such as Chongqing North Road, Chengde Road, Nanjing East Road, Guangzhou Street, Shaoxing community, Jilin Road, etc. Chongqing, Chengde, Nanjing, Guangzhou and Shaoxing are all familiar cities in the mainland. Jilin is a province of China, which almost covers the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest of China.
Although there are diehard "Taiwan independence" elements on the island who collude with "Anti China" forces outside the territory to obstruct Taiwan's return and reunification of the two sides of the Strait, the fact that the two sides of the Strait are the same country cannot be changed in many places. The naming of streets in Taiwan is the best witness.
People who are familiar with Shanghai know that it is the tradition of Shanghai streets to name them after Chinese provinces and cities. The North-South vertical use provinces, such as Zhejiang Road and Shandong Road, is straight; In the east-west direction, cities are used, such as Chengdu Road and Fuzhou road.
After the restoration of Taiwan in 1945, the office of the chief executive of Taiwan province published the measures for correcting the names of counties, cities and streets in Taiwan Province, and "carrying forward the spirit of the Chinese nation" was the highest principle for renaming. A Shanghai architect named Zheng Dingbang was sent to Taipei to name the street plan here. He took the map of China at that time, overlaid it on the street map of Taipei, and named it according to the direction of East, West, North and south. Taipei's streets can be said to be a large map of Chinese History: except for several main roads that are named with political meaning and traditional morality, the sub level streets are renamed from north to South and from east to west according to the orientation of the Chinese map. For example, Qinghai Road, Dali street, Guilin Road, Kunming Street, etc. are located in the southwest; In the northwest, there are Hami sub district, Jiuquan sub district and Tacheng sub district; There are Xiamen street and Fuzhou Street in the southeast; In the northeast, there are Liaoning sub district and Songjiang Road. Some analysts believe that Zheng Dingbang's inspiration probably came from Shanghai, because the streets of Shanghai were named after Chinese provinces and cities at that time. In December 1949, after the Kuomintang authorities officially moved to Taipei, they further improved the names of the mainland in more detail.
If we go back to the source, who is the founder of this tradition? This can not help but mention British Consul in Shanghai mchuatuo.
In 1862, the American concession of Shanghai was merged into the British concession, and the streets in the concession had to be renamed. As a result, all parties debated one after another and insisted on their own views. There was only one name. If the dispute could not be resolved, or even the sword was drawn, it might cause internal strife. At this time, we need a person who is deeply popular to stand up and coordinate.
Just when the parties were red in the face, Mai Huatuo formulated the memorandum on the naming of Shanghai roads. The merged concession did not use the street name of the original British concession or the street name of the American concession, but was named after the Chinese place name.