Deals bolster cross-Straits ties

TAIPEI - Negotiators from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan on Thursday signed two agreements on meteorological and seismic cooperation.

Chen Deming (L), president of the mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, and Lin Join-sane, chairman of the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation, shake hands during a signing ceremony in Taipei, Feb 26. [icpress.cn]

Chen Deming, president of the mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), and Lin Join-sane, chairman of the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), signed the pacts in Taiwan's Taipei City.

The meteorological pact agrees to cooperate in meteorological operations and technology, including information sharing, research and monitoring typhoons, rainstorms and other weather phenomena.

In the seismic pact, the two sides agreed on earthquake monitoring and technology, publicity and education on disaster prevention, and personnel exchanges.

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