Lien Chan finishes visit in Jiangsu
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-10-13 22:59
Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) Honorary Chairman Lien Chan visited East China's
Jiangsu Province on Friday afternoon and praised the rapid development of the
province.
Lien and his wife arrived at Wuxi on Thursday afternoon and was received by
Li Yuanchao, Secretary of the CPC Jiangsu Provincial Committee.
Lien thanked Li for his hospitality. "The Mid-autumn festival has just passed
and I feel a sense of re-union with old friends," he said. They met during
Lien's first visit in April 2005 when he participated in the memorial ceremony
for Dr. Sun Yat-sen, China's forerunner of the anti-feudalism revolution, in
Nanjing, capital city of Jiangsu.
"A year after Lien's meeting with Chinese Chairman Hu Jintao, economic
cooperation between Taiwan and Jiangsu is enhanced," said Li, noting that in the
first half of this year alone, Jiangsu attracted an actual investment about 2
billion U.S. dollars from Taiwan. Over 500,000 local people are working in
Taiwan enterprises. "We have confidence in peaceful development across the
Taiwan Strait and our mutual benefit."
Li hopes to strengthen trade cooperation with Taiwan. "Agriculture in Jiangsu
is undergoing a transformation and we are looking forward to cooperation in this
field," he said.
This is Lien's fourth visit to the Chinese Mainland. During the visits, he
has been to ten provinces, autonomous regions and
municipalities.
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