Top envoys from across the Straits will hold new talks on economic issues in December to push for closer cooperation, an official announced yesterday.

The meeting, the fourth of its kind, will take place in the central Taiwan city of Taichung, said Fan Liqing, spokeswoman of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council.

Chen Yunlin, president of the mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), will meet his counterpart, Chiang Pin-kung, Fan said.