“People in Taiwan should come to Shanghai, take a look at the city, and experience life here for several days,” Holger Chen Chih-han said on Wednesday, on the second day of his six-day trip.
Chen, better known to his millions of followers as Kuan Chang – the Gym Boss – arrived in Shanghai on Tuesday for a self-funded tour that he said was meant to offer Taiwanese audiences an unfiltered glimpse into mainland Chinese society.
“The construction and development in Shanghai are super first-rate and as the city has advanced, quality of life here has also progressed,” Chen said in a live stream.
Speaking to reporters before departing from Taoyuan Airport on Tuesday, Chen said he had once been deeply influenced by anti-Beijing rhetoric in Taiwan. “I used to think I’d never set foot in China. I hated it. I believed everything the DPP told me,” he said.
