An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale jolted the sea off northeast coast of Taiwan at 9:11 am Beijing Time on Saturday, the China Earthquake Networks Center said.
Cross-Straits stability is key to the realization of common prosperity in the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, said the mainland's Taiwan affairs chief, Wang Yi, on Friday.
President Hu Jintao on Friday called on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to continue increasing mutual trust and deepening cooperation to create more favorable conditions for the peaceful development of cross-Straits relations.
A senior labor union leader in Taiwan is urging Taiwanese enterprises that have invested in the mainland to better protect workers' rights.
A Chinese mainland spokesman on Wednesday reiterated the significance of cross-Straits contact on military issues.
Top advisor of the Taiwan-based Cross-Straits Common Market Foundation, Frederick Chien, will lead a delegation to the upcoming Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) to be hosted on Chinese mainland, a mainland spokesman said Wednesday.
Authorities on both sides of the Taiwan Straits should explore the possibility of building a military security mechanism of mutual trust, formally end hostilities and reach a peace agreement, according to a white paper on China's national defense. Full text
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The two sides of the Taiwan Strait can hold contacts and exchanges on military issues at an appropriate time and talk about a military security mechanism of mutual trust, says a white paper on national defense issued on Thursday.
A Chinese mainland official said Wednesday that the mainland and Taiwan will hold a forum on economy, trade and culture, the seventh of its kind, on May 6-8 in the southwest city of Chengdu.
Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou on Sunday called for further cooperation in medical and other health care issues between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan amid Japan's devastating earthquake and improved cross-Straits relations.
Chinese mainland universities will lower their admission threshold for Taiwan candidates from the new semester starting September, said a mainland official on Wednesday.
Premier Wen Jiabao gave an assurance on Monday that Taiwan-funded businesses on the mainland will not be marginalized by economic restructuring.
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