Chinese mainland visitors to Taiwan reached 767,400 in the first quarter of 2014, up 45 percent year on year, a Taiwan affairs office spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
Negotiators from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan on Thursday signed two agreements on meteorological and seismic cooperation, promising information exchanges and joint monitors between the two regions that are both seismically active and prone to typhoons.
Hong Kong's Chief Executive C Y Leung on Tuesday said last Sunday's protest against mainland tourists by a group of people on Canton Road only represented a very small section of Hong Kong community.
Taiwan mulled allowing citizens from 15 more mainland cities to travel to the island as individual tourists (without contracts to travel agencies) this year, the island's tourism authority announced on Thursday.
Over 62,000 individual tourists (without contracts to travel agencies) from the Chinese mainland traveled to Taiwan in December, registering a new high, the local tourism bureau announced on Saturday.
Hong Kong's food and health authority on Monday evening confirmed a H7N9 bird flu case was found at a local agricultural products wholesale market and announced it will cull about 20,000 poultry in the market Tuesday morning.
A total of 182 enterprises from the Chinese mainland were listed in Hong Kong by the end of 2013, holding 57 percent of the total market value of Hong Kong shares, an official from the mainland's securities regulator said on Wednesday.
The People's Daily, flagship newspaper of the Communist Party of China (CPC), published an article to commemorate the development of cross-Strait relations over the last 35 years.
The Chinese mainland and Taiwan have agreed to set no limit on the number of cross-Strait flights added during the Spring Festival so as to better deal with the travel rush, a mainland spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
Mainland chief negotiator Chen Deming called for greater cross-Strait cooperation in the face of global economic competition when meeting with Honorary Kuomintang Chairman Wu Po-hsiung in Taipei on Monday, the seventh day of his eight-day trip to the island.
Mainland chief negotiator for Taiwanese affairs said the cross-Strait trade agreement negotiation will continue, albert the agreed service trade pact is still in deliberation by the island's legislature, when meeting with Chiang Pin-kung, the former chairman of the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) on Sunday in Taipei.
The Chinese foreign ministry on Monday responded over Taiwan's confirmation on the cut of its ties with Gambia, vowing joint efforts with Taiwan to safeguard the sound situation of cross-Strait ties.
The Chinese mainland will support Taiwan in developing an offshore yuan market, and the two sides are negotiating a currency swap mechanism, a mainland spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Taiwan's communication administrative authority has approved the first submarine communication cable directly linking both sides of the Taiwan Strait, enabling the cable to come into commercial service.
The Chinese central government and the government of the Macao Special Administrative Region signed a supplement to an economic agreement on Friday to further enhance trade exchanges between Macao and the Chinese mainland.
Chiang Pin-kung, former chairman of the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), on Thursday urged Taiwan to further the follow-up negotiation and signing of agreements under the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) with the Chinese mainland.
The Chinese mainland and Taiwan held discussions in late August on establishing offices on each other's side, the mainland side said on Thursday.
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