Jia Qinglin (right), Standing Committee member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, meets Chiang Pin-kun, Kuomintang vice-chairman and leader of the 34-member delegation from Taiwan, March 31 in Beijing. [newsphoto]

Lien Chan [file photo]

    BEIJING, April 20 (Xinhuanet) -- Lien Chan, chairman of Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT) party, will visit the mainland cities of Nanjing, Beijing, Xi'an and Shanghai from April 26 to May 3, officials said Wednesday.

    The schedule was jointly decided by the Taiwan Work Office of Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the relevant department of the KMT party.

    Lien will lead a KMT delegation for the visit at the invitationof Hu Jintao, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee.

    On April 18, Chen Yunlin, director of the Taiwan Work Office ofCPC Central Committee, held talks with Lin Feng-cheng, secretary-general of the KMT party, to finalize details of Lien's trip. Enditem