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Recently, a netizen revealed that during the Paris Olympics, he checked into the Evergreen Laurel Hotel in Paris and found that among the flags of participating countries hanging in the hotel lobby, the Chinese flag was the only one missing. So he asked the hotel management to hang it up but was refused. Once this matter was exposed, netizens expressed their firm boycott of the hotel's behavior. The official website shows that the Evergreen Laurel Hotel is a hotel brand created by Taiwan's Evergreen Group. At present, many platforms such as Ctrip and Meituan have removed the hotel from their listings.

On August 15, the official website of Evergreen Laurel Hotel (Shanghai) issued an apology statement, signed by Evergreen Laurel Hotel, saying that the matter was not handled well and did not want to affect the feelings of the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. The president mentioned in the latest statement, Chang Yung-fa, is the founder of Taiwan Evergreen Group. He was born in Yilan, Taiwan in 1927 and passed away in 2016. He founded Evergreen Shipping in 1968. After decades of development, its business has expanded to land transportation, aviation, hotels and other fields. Chang Rongfa had been engaged in charity for a long time before his death. After the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, the Ya'an earthquake in 2013 and the Ludian earthquake in 2014, he donated money to the disaster area to assist in disaster relief. Regarding the so-called "Taiwan independence", Chang Yung-fa once made it clear in public that "of course I cannot agree", "because Taiwan is a small island, and the most important thing is that the people's lives must be stable, this is the most important thing". He once said in his oral works that he "is Taiwanese and Chinese".

Source: Beijing Time