CHANGCHUN - Residents in 10 more cities in the Chinese mainland on Friday were given official permission to apply to travel to Taiwan as individuals under a cross-Straits agreement.

The newly added cities are Harbin, Taiyuan, Nanchang, Guiyang, Dalian, Wuxi, Wenzhou, Zhongshan, Yantai and Zhangzhou, which brings the total to 30.