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Mainland willing to help Taiwan to tackle crisis
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-12-20 11:58 SHANGHAI - The mainland is willing to help Taiwan in face of current global financial crisis, a senior Communist Party of China (CPC) leader said in Shanghai on Saturday. "If the worsening world economic situation continues and the Taiwan side asks for help to solve economic difficulties, the mainland is willing to offer assistance with utmost efforts," said Jia Qinglin, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau. Jia, also chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, made the remarks at the 4th Cross-Straits Economic, Trade and Cultural Forum which began on Saturday.
Jia said topics of the forum include expanding cross-Straits cooperation in the finance and service sectors, encouraging two-way investment and regularizing economic exchanges between the two sides, which cover the key points of deepening cross-Straits economic exchange and cooperation under the new situation. He urged the two sides to start discussion on setting up cross-Straits economic cooperation mechanism as soon as possible, adding that the Taiwan side should create necessary conditions for the mainland enterprises to invest there. "The two sides should continue to work together to realize normal flow of capital, information and technology," he said. Kuomintang (KMT) Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung and Honorary Chairman Lien Chan attended the forum. Wu Poh-hsiung said the two sides should treasure current opportunity of development as direct links of transport, trade and mail services have been realized between the two sides. It is the two parties' courage and determination in recent years that has created today's situation, Wu said. Wang Yi, director of the CPC Central Committee Taiwan Work Office, said in his opening speech that the forum bore a positive meaning of "carrying on the past and opening a way for future" as the cross-Straits relation has obviously developed and improved. "I hope the forum will play a positive role in deepening cross-Straits economic and trade cooperation and advance peaceful development of the cross-Straits relation," he said. More than 400 delegates of the two sides, including businessmen, experts, officials of the CPC and the KMT, attended the forum. KMT Vice Chairman Lin Feng-cheng said the forum will discuss how to improve cross-Straits economic and trade cooperation in face of the global financial crisis. |
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