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BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT) party is going to
make party-to-party cadre exchanges with the Communist Party of China (CPC)
beginning at the end of August, according to KMT chairman Lien Chan.
According to sources from Taipei, Lien Chien said Tuesday
at a press
conference that the first phase of exchanges will be conducted between six
cities and counties including Keelung, with mainland cities including Ningbo in
east China's Zhejiang Province.
Each county and city will select up to 30 cadres to join in the visiting
delegation. Members of the delegation will include non-KMT members in the
future, including those who care about the development across the Taiwan
Straits, said Lien.
The second phase of exchanges will be among 10 cities and counties and the
third phase will include Taipei and Kaohsiung, according to Lien.
The set exchange pairs are Keelung-Ningbo, Hsinchu-Suzhou, Taichung-Xiamen,
Changhua-Qingdao, Tainan-Shenzhen, Kaohsiung-Fuzhou.
Lien expressed the hope that the party-to-party exchanges will not only
mean communication, opinion-conferring and friendship-promoting among party
cadres, but also boost cultural and trade ties across the Straits.
Lien and CPC chairman Hu Jintao signed a press communique on his visit to
the mainland in late April and early May, saying that the KMT and CPC would
establish a platform for regular exchanges between the two parties, including
mutual visits of party officials at various levels. Enditem
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