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  Mainland seeks peaceful cross-Straits ties   (Xinhua)  Updated: 2006-01-07 09:03  The Chinese mainland will make more efforts in 
2006 to build peaceful and stable relations across the Taiwan Straits, a 
mainland official said in Beijing Friday. 
 
 
 
 
   A giant pandas holds a feeder's 
 legs for food at the China Giant Panda Research Centre in Wolong, 
 southwest China's Sichuan province January 4, 2006. The Chinese 
 mainland has reavealed a panda couple for Taiwan as a goodwill 
 gift.[newsphoto]
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fundamental policies of peaceful reunification and 'one country, two systems,' 
the eight-point proposal on developing cross-Straits relations and promoting 
peaceful reunification of the country," Li Weiyi, spokesman for the Taiwan 
Affairs Office of the State Council, said at a press conference. 
The four-point guideline on cross-Straits relations put forward by Hu Jintao, 
general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China 
(CPC), will also be upheld, he said. 
 "We have repeatedly stated that we will seek peaceful reunification with our 
utmost sincerity and effort," he said. 
 However, Li said, "We will never permit Taiwan splittists or anyone to separate 
Taiwan from the Chinese mainland." 
 "We will continue to unite the compatriots in Taiwan and overseas Chinese to 
further promote cross-Straits personnel and economic exchanges and cooperation, 
and promote the early realization of the 'three direct links' of the two sides," 
he said. 
   
  
  
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