Hu Jintao, then general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, meets with Wu Poh-hsiung, then chairman of the KMT at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, May 28, 2008. The year 2008 also saw the first meeting between the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits and Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation in June, respectively led by Chen Yunlin and Jiang Bingkun. The meeting helped to form three links across the Straits in December, 2008.[Photo/Xinhua]