The cross-Straits communication should extend to villages, schools and communities as well as workers, farmers, young people and minorities regardless of the partisan or regional differences, said Jia Qinglin, the country's top political advisor in his address to the 2nd Cross-Straits Forum on June 20th.

Jia urged more impetus from grass roots organizations from the two sides to explore new areas, new channels and new formats of cross-Straits exchange, and hopes that the people could benefit from a peaceful cross-Straits relationship.

"People of the straits should be the object, the motivation and the beneficiary of the relationship development," Jia said, "The Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) to be signed will generate more opportunities for a long term growth of economic relationship."

To boost such as relationship to the higher level, the two sides must push a deeper civil exchange, he said.

Jia encouraged those who had not been to the Mainland to visit and learn more about the social and economic development. He also wanted more mainlanders to visit Taiwan, especially to middle and south part of the island.

By Hu Meidong and Wei Tian