BEIJING - The mainland will promote peaceful development of relations across the Taiwan Strait, deepen exchanges and cooperation in all areas, and expand interactions across the Strait, said President Hu Jintao on Friday.
"We should join hands in opposing and checking separatist activities for Taiwan independence and work for the happiness of compatriots on both sides of the Strait and the future of the Chinese nation," said Hu, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, at a grand gathering marking the 90th anniversary of the CPC in Beijing.
Zhu De, born in Yilong County of Sichuan Province in 1886 and passed away in 1976, is a great Marxist, proletarian revolutionary, statesman and military strategist.
A native of Le Zhi, in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, and awarded by the People's Republic of China the military rank of marshal; Served as the country's Vice Premier (1954-1972) and Foreign Minister (1958-1972)