On Monday, the vice chairman of the Kuomintang
(KMT), the Nationalist Party of China, arrived in Guangzhou,
capital of the southern province of Guangdong.
P.K. Chiang?and his 34-member delegation were
met by Huang Huahua, the provincial governor, in the morning. Huang
briefed them on local social and economic development and vowed to
promote economic cooperation and exchanges between Taiwan and
Guangdong, where a total of 18,440 Taiwanese enterprises are
registered.
Chiang said he hoped his visit would promote
economic cooperation across the Taiwan Straits, especially in
giving a push to charter freight and farm produce exports to the
mainland.
The delegation will visit Huanghuagang today, the
tomb of "nationalist martyrs" who died in an abortive 1911 uprising
months before other revolutionaries overthrew the Qing Dynasty
(1644-1911).
The delegation will also pay respects to the burial
site of the KMT founding father Sun Yat-sen in Nanjing, in eastern
China’s Jiangsu
Province, on Wednesday
(Xinhua News Agency March 29, 2005)