Hu Jintao, then general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, meets with Lien Chan, then chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, April 29, 2005.The first talk between the two Party's leaders marks a chance to break the ice for cross-Straits relations since the two parts were separated from each other after the Chinese civil war (1946-1949). [Photo/Xinhua] |