Economy

Cross-Straits economic forum kicks off in south China

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-07-10 13:59

 

Wang Yi, director of the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, presides over the opening ceremony of the sixth Cross-Strait Economic, Trade and Culture Forum in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, July 10, 2010. [Xinhua/Guo Lei]

GUANGZHOU - The Cross-Straits Economic, Trade and Culture Forum, a regular forum between the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT) Party, opened Saturday in the southern city of Guangzhou.

The forum, the sixth of its kind since it was first held in 2006, will focus on cross-Straits cooperation in green energy, energy conservation and environmental protection.

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Wang Yi, director of the Taiwan Work Office of the CPC Central Committee, said the forum was held as the peaceful development of cross-Straits ties achieved new progress.

The Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), reached between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan in late June, signaled that cross-Straits economic ties had entered a new stage of mutual benefits, he said while addressing the opening ceremony.

"The main topics of the forum include how to implement the agreement and our cooperation in new energy, energy conservation and environmental protection industries," said KMT vice chairman Lin Fong-cheng at the ceremony.