Cross-Strait cooperation on agenda

By Chen Jianxing  |  2008-12-20

Wang Yi (right), director of the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China's Central Committee, shakes hands with Wu Poh-hsiung, chairman of Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang Party, in Shanghai yesterday. Wu and Honorary KMT Chairman Lien Chan arrived in the city to attend the two-day Fourth Cross-Strait Economic, Trade and Cultural Forum, which opens today. The forum, designed to deepen economic exchange and cooperation on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, is co-organized by the CPC and the Kuomintang. Topics include expanding cross- Strait cooperation in finance and services, encouraging two-way investment and coordinating economic exchanges between the two sides.

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