China to maintain stable cross-Straits ties
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-07-24 18:42 The Chinese mainland is
determined to maintain the peaceful and stable development of the cross-Straits
ties with Taiwan, despite complexity of the political situation in the island,
which is part of China, a Chinese official
said in Beijing Sunday.
Li Bingcai, standing deputy director of the Association for Relations Across
the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), told a gathering of overseas Chinese here that the
Chinese government is always determined to promote economic exchanges and
cooperation across the Taiwan Straits and to seek common prosperity of the two
sides.
He said the mainland will never withdraw its efforts to work sincerely for
the benefits of compatriots in Taiwan.
Li, heading a delegation of the Chinese mainland's Taiwan affairs officials,
is on a six-day U.S. tour to inform the Chinese American community, including
those originally from Taiwan, of the Chinese government's position on the Taiwan
issue.
The Chinese mainland has been consistently sticking to the one-China policy
and advocating for an ultimate reunification with Taiwan through maintaining
peace and stability across the Taiwan Straits and facilitating a healthy
development of the cross-Straits ties, stressed Li, who had met with
representatives of the Chinese American communities in New York and Chicago
earlier.
About 80 representatives of various overseas Chinese groups in the greater
Los Angeles area were present at the Sunday gathering.
Li and his delegation arrived in the United States on July 18.
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