NANJING, July 6 (Xinhuanet) -- The forum involving 200 people from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan closed Wednesday in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, discussing on ways to intensify all-round cooperation between counties and small cities across the Taiwan Straits.

    Present at the one-day forum are 100 representatives from 18 counties and cities in Taiwan, and 100 deputies to the Chinese National People's Congress (NPC) from 28 counties, cities and districts from east China's Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian provinces and Shanghai.

    They discussed ways to promote cooperation and exchanges in economic, cultural and urban development sectors, with the theme of "cross-Straits cooperation, common development".

    Tourism should be promoted across the Straits to enhance the understanding and exchanges between the compatriots across the Straits, said Wang Jieping, a representative from Wuxi, a city in Jiangsu Province.

    Taiwan boasts high quality agricultural products, especially fruits, and the cross-Straits agricultural agents should contact more to channel more agricultural products from Taiwan to the mainland, said Liao Xiren, a representative from Tainan in Taiwan Province.

    Most representatives believed the forum provides a platform for the counties and small cities across the Straits to promote mutual understanding, and should be held regularly in the future. Enditem