TAIPEI - Governor of southeast China's Fujian province Huang Xiaojing started a six-day visit to Taiwan on Wednesday.
After his arrival in Taipei Wednesday morning, Huang visited Cecilia Y. Koo, the wife of the late chairman of the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), Koo Chen-fu.
A native of the Cangshan District in Fuzhou, Fujian's capital, she was presented with Fujian delicacies by Huang.
Huang is heading an economic, trade and cultural exchange delegation to the island.
His visit came at the invitation of the Taiwan-based Kuomintang's National Policy Foundation. The theme of Huang's visit is: "Visiting Friends and Doing Business."
Fujian Vice-Governor Su Zengtian is also scheduled to visit SEF Vice-Chairman Kao Koong Liann, whose ancestral home is also in Fuzhou.
The delegation will meet with an association of townsmen of Fujian origin and attend the opening ceremony of an exhibition on cross-Strait clan relatives exchange and family name books.
On Wednesday at noon, SEF Chairman Chiang Pin-kung was scheduled to meet with Huang's delegation. In the following days, KMT Honorary Chairmen Lien Chan and Wu Poh-hsiung will also meet with Huang.
A forum discussing Fujian-Taiwan cooperation and aiming to deepen mainland-Taiwan cooperation is to be held Wednesday afternoon at Taipei's Grand Hotel.
A contract-signing ceremony for Fujian enterprises investing in the island will be held after the forum.
The six-day trip will cover all parts of Taiwan, from Keelung in the north to Kaohsiung in the south. The delegation will meet with locals from all walks of life.
Other activities of exchange during the tour include: exchanges involving over 100 villages and towns from each side; 10,000 of Fujian tourists visiting Taiwan; and the signing of a cooperation agreement between two ports -- Taiwan's Kaohsiung and Fujian's Xiamen.
Fujian Province lies across the Taiwan Strait from Taiwan.