Chinese mainland, Taiwan sign historic agreement

Source: Xinhua  |   2008-6-13  |     ONLINE EDITION

Chen Yunlin (R), chairman of Chinese mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS), and Chiang Pin-kun, chairman of the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), shake hands after signing the agreements on cross-Strait weekend charted flights and mainland tourists' traveling to Taiwan, in Beijing, China, today.

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CHINESE mainland and Taiwan signed the agreement on cross-Strait weekend charted flights and mainland tourists traveling to Taiwan around 9 am today.

The CHINESE mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait and the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation yesterday convened their first talks in nine years to discuss the weekend charted flights and mainland tourists traveling to Taiwan.


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