一 | Taipei, Oct 10 (UNI) Taiwan on Monday marked the "Double Ten" or 10 October, the self-ruled island's national day.
The annual celebration is especially significant this year -- tensions with Beijing, which claims Taiwan as its territory, are at an all-time high, reports BBC.
China's leader Xi Jinping, who has been particularly vocal about "re-unification", is set to get a third term at a historic Communist Party meeting next week.
Ironically, 10 October has nothing to do with Taiwan or any moment in its history. It, in fact, marks the day in 1911 when an uprising began in Wuchang in central China that eventually led to the collapse of the last imperial dynasty -- and the establishment of the Republic of China.
So why is Taiwan celebrating the day? Because the island's official name is still The Republic of China on Taiwan. The flags flying across Taipei today are still of the white star on a blue and red background.
It is a peculiar legacy of the Chinese civil war. In 1949, the defeated nationalist regime of Chiang Kai-shek fled across the Taiwan strait to Taipei. For decades Chiang held Taiwan in an iron grip, while continuing to proclaim his regime "the true democratic government of Free China", the BBC reported.
Today all of this seems slightly absurd -- and for so many Taiwanese, especially the younger generation, it is.
Opinion polls this year suggest that 70to 80 per cent of people here now consider themselves "Taiwanese". That is a significant increase from a decade ago, when around half the population still said they were "Chinese".
This trend has not gone unnoticed in Beijing, and it is retaliating, the report said.
Around half of the island's population now supports formal independence, even under threat of attack from China. A poll last year showed 75 per cent of Taiwanese say they would fight a Chinese invasion.
UNI MR。 八一建军节来临之际，为大力弘扬拥军优属优良传统，切实关爱功臣与退役军人，江西体彩九江、景德镇两地分中心相继联合当地退役军人事务局开展“微光行动”系列公益活动，以务实举措践行“来之于民、用之于民”的公益初心。九江：物资暖人心，共忆峥嵘岁月7月29日，体彩九江分中心联合九江市退役军人事务局，在瑞昌市光荣院开展“情暖‘八一’关爱功臣”微光公益慰问活动，覆盖永修、瑞昌、修水、都昌四所光荣院。活动前期，市退役军人事务局精准摸排院内优抚对象需求，九江体彩据此采购了中老年纯棉夏装、冰丝凉席、空调被、防滑凉拖、冰丝护膝、大容量316不锈钢保温杯、防暑营养礼盒及欧姆龙血压监测仪等三百余件实用物资，全方位解决老兵夏季纳凉、日常起居及健康监测等难题。活动现场，工作人员将慰问物资送到老人手中，并围坐交流，仔细询问老战士们的身体状况与饮食起居，认真倾听老兵讲述军旅故事，重温红色记忆，向他们致以崇高敬意。老功臣们接过慰问品倍感欣慰，纷纷感谢社会各界的挂念与体彩送来的贴心物资。景德镇：体检护安康，尊崇氛围浓7月30日，体彩景德镇分中心联合浮梁县退役军人事务局，在景德镇市第二人民医院为浮梁县退役军人开展专项健康体检服务。
二 | 现场“致敬老兵守家国 体彩微光送安康”的横幅烘托出尊崇温情氛围。
三 | 前期，经浮梁县退役军人事务局精准摸排，体彩景德镇分中心定制了40张爱心体检卡，依托医院专业资源为老兵提供系统化体检。体检当日，医院开辟专项通道，合理安排流程，由医护人员引导老兵有序完成各项检查。
四 | 医务人员细致开展问诊与健康筛查，并针对中老年常见病普及养生防病知识，周到服务获得一致好评。老兵们表示，免费体检切实回应了健康需求，让大家真切感受到社会的尊重与温暖。一直以来，江西体彩始终坚守公益使命，持续聚焦退役军人等重点群体开展暖心帮扶。下一步，各地分中心将持续深化公益举措，常态化开展走访慰问与志愿服务，以公益微光汇聚拥军爱民力量，积极营造全社会尊崇军人、关爱功臣的良好风尚。
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