Direct shipping route to open between mainland and Taiwan
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-05-31 12:08
Another direct shipping route between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan will be
officially inaugurated on June 8, a Chinese mainland official announced here
Wednesday.
The route, devoted to passenger transport, links Quanzhou of east China's
Fujian province and Jinmen of Taiwan, said He Shizhong, director of the economic
bureau of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, at a press conference.
"The sea transport routes between Fujian and Jinmen and Mazu are real direct
transport routes," said He. "Such mode may well be expanded to other ports
across the Taiwan Strait so as to realize comprehensive, direct and two-way
shipping across the Strait."
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