The Chinese mainland's new measures to increase exchanges with counties in Taiwan, and remarks made by top political adviser Yu Zhengsheng, show a strong sense of responsibility, experts from across the Taiwan Straits said.

"The refusal by Taiwan's current Democratic Progressive Party administration to recognize the 1992 Consensus has led to an impasse and even regression of relations across the Straits, impairing the interests of compatriots from both sides," said Liu Guoshen, director of the Taiwan Research Institute at Xiamen University.

The delegation of officials from New Taipei City and seven island counties, which came to Beijing as part of a mainland visit, expressed hope of continuing the peaceful cross-Straits development and win-win cooperation of the past eight years based on the 1992 Consensus, which affirms that both sides of the Straits belong to one China.