Yang Yi, spokesman of the State
Council's Taiwan Affairs Office speaks at a press conference in
Beijing May 13, 2009. (Xinhuanet Photo) Photo
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BEIJING, May 13 (Xinhua) -- Hu Jintao, general
secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, invited
Kuomintang Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung to visit Beijing and Wu accepted the
invitation, a mainland official said here Wednesday.
During the trip, Wu will also attend activities to
remember Dr. Sun Yat-sen, a founder of the Kuomintang, or the Nationalist Party
of China, in Nanjing of eastern Jiangsu Province, Yang Yi, spokesman of the
State Council (cabinet) Taiwan Affairs Office, told a regular press conference.
A detailed schedule for Wu was still under
discussion, Yang said.
Sun was buried in Nanjing, which was also the seat of
the Kuomintang regime that ruled China until 1949.
Hu and Wu first met in Beijing on May 28 last year,
days after the Kuomintang's Ma Ying-jeou was inaugurated Taiwan leader.
They met again in August 2008 when Wu was invited to
attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games.
BEIJING, May 13 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese mainland and
Taiwan should build mutual trust in order to resolve long-standing sensitive
disputes such as political and military issues, a mainland spokesman said on
Wednesday.
"Such issues could be not sidestepped in the development
of a cross-Strait relationship," Yang Yi, spokesman of the State Council
(cabinet) Taiwan Affairs Office, told a regular press conference. Full story
BEIJING, May 13 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese mainland supports
the two organizations engaged in cross-Straits talks to set up offices on each
other's side, said a mainland official here Wednesday.
The mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan
Straits and Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation ended their third round of
meetings since 2008 in late April, reaching agreements on regular direct flights
as well as financial and judicial cooperation. Full story
BEIJING, May 13 (Xinhua) -- More than 8,000 Taiwanese
people are to attend the first civil forum between the Chinese mainland and
Taiwan later this week, Yang Yi, spokesman for the State Council's Taiwan
Affairs Office, told reporters Wednesday.
The forum will run from May 15 to 22 in Xiamen, Fuzhou,
Quanzhou and Putian in the southeast province of Fujian. Full story
FUZHOU, May 10 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has
called for the acceleration of an economic zone on the western side of the
Taiwan Strait, in order to boost social and economic development in the region
and combat the global economic downturn.
In a three-day visit to the southeastern province of
Fujian from Friday, Wen said the economic zone, centered on Fujian and facing
Taiwan Island across the strait, had been long planned by the central
government. Full story
Vendors arrange the fruits transported
from southeast China's Taiwan at Zhongpu Taiwan Fruit Distribution Center
in Xiamen, southeast China's Fujian Province, Jan. 4, 2009. Direct air and
sea transport between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, which started from
last month, has reduced the costs of the fruits from Taiwan by 10 to 20
percent, making the fruits more competitive in mainland markets.
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NANJING, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Top negotiators from the
mainland and Taiwan reached consensus Sunday on routine direct flights across
the Taiwan Straits, joint crack-down on crimes and financial cooperation.
Regular flights will ease the current shortage of
cross-straits flights by increasing the number of flights each week from 108 to
270 and adding six terminals, according to the mainland-based Association for
Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) and the Taiwan-based Straits
Exchange Foundation (SEF). Full story
BEIJING, May 9 (Xinhua) -- As orders from North America
and Europe shrink amid the global downturn, many Taiwan businesses are
restructuring their strategies and the mainland market is moving up in their
agenda.
Tu Chi-bing is running an aluminum alloy plate factory for
the Taiwan-based bicycle company Giant in Kunshan city of eastern Jiangsu
Province, which produces 40,000 tonnes of plates annually. Full story
TAIPEI, May 5 (Xinhua) -- A survey publicized by the
Taiwan authority on Tuesday showed that more than 66 percent of Taiwan residents
believed achievements reached in the latest cross-Strait talk will bring benefit
to the island's economic development.
The Chinese mainland and Taiwan signed three agreements to
boost cross-Strait ties in the third talk between Chen Yunlin, head of the
mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) and
Chiang Pin-kung, head of the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF),
which concluded on April 26 in Nanjing, capital of the east Jiangsu Province. Full story
BEIJING, May 4 (Xinhua) -- The State Council, China's
cabinet, has recently passed a plan to support the development of the economic
zone on the western side of the Taiwan Straits.
The plan adopted at an executive meeting of the State
Council is aimed to boost development in a region led by Fujian Province and
promote cooperation between the region and Taiwan. Full story
