Former politician says reunification inevitable

Yok Mu-ming confident of two sides coming together as they are one family

Yok Mu-ming, the former president of Taiwan's New Party who is a renowned pro-reunification politician on the island, said the reunification of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait is an inevitable historical trend as both sides share the same roots.

Even in his 80s, Yok often takes young people of Taiwan to pay tribute to the Yellow Emperor Mausoleum, located in Shaanxi province, in memory of Huangdi, or the Yellow Emperor, who is regarded as one of the Chinese people's most important ancestors.

"We are all Chinese, and we Chinese people are known as the descendants of the Huangdi emperor and the Yandi emperor, so our nation's roots are in the mausoleum. I take young people along with me to let them remember that as Chinese, our roots are on the mainland," he said.