Unfazed by protests, Zhang Zhijun stepped off the plane at Taipei's Taoyuan International Airport on Wednesday and extended greetings in the local Minnan dialect.
Taiwanese newspapers have eagerly anticipated the visit to the island of mainland Taiwan affairs chief Zhang Zhijun.
Chinese mainland chief of Taiwan affairs Zhang Zhijun will embark on his trip to Taiwan on Wednesday. To paraphrase Neil Armstrong's moonwalk quote: one small step for Zhang, one giant leap for cross-Strait relations.
When Taiwanese college student Lai Syuan-hong crossed the Taiwan Strait to arrive in Xiamen last Friday, his mainland impressions included its yawning rich-poor divide, miraculous maglev train, over-popularization, and one related to a tempestuous protest.
In a speech that offers a glimpse of the mainland's latest thinking on cross-Strait relations, top political advisor Yu Zhengsheng has said the mainland will show more respect and understanding for Taiwan people's way of thinking.
The Chinese mainland's chief of Taiwan affairs will visit Taiwan for the first time in late June.
The mainland and Taiwan should further cooperation in the flat panel industry and upgrade technology in more fields of the industry, said Bai Weimin, vice head of the mainland's China Video Industry Association on Friday.
The chairman of Taiwan's People First Party on Monday called on businesspeople and people working in the cultural and creative industry from Taiwan and the mainland to cooperate to make money.
Economic integration will bring about mutual benefit and win-win results for the Chinese mainland and Taiwan and should not be disturbed, said top leader Xi Jinping.
A survey made public here Friday, showed 70.4 percent of Taiwan people want to review the controversial cross-Strait service trade pact clause by clause "right now".
Low wages and high unemployment rate have prompted more Taiwanese college graduates into peddling, according to Taiwan's statistics authority.
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.
The Taiwan authority on Sunday afternoon agreed to halt the construction of the island's fourth nuclear power plant that triggered safety concerns.
Student protest leaders Monday announced that they would retreat from the chamber of Taiwan's legislative building at 6 p.m. Thursday.
Over 100,000 people on Sunday afternoon flocked to streets in Taipei to protest a cross-Strait service trade pact, while businesses executives called for an end to the protest.
China's Defense Ministry has urged the United States to stop selling arms to Taiwan and take actions to safeguard Sino-U.S. relations.
Over a week into the students' occupation of Taiwan's legislative building, both the ruling party and its opposition have shown intent on finding a peaceful end to the standoff over a cross-Strait service pact.
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