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Preparatory talks on further China Taiwan cooperation start Tuesday
Negotiators from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan are scheduled to hold preparatory talks on economic and health-care cooperation on Dec. 14 in Shanghai, the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) announced Thursday.
The preparatory consultation, to be conducted by Zheng Lizhong, executive vice president of the mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), and SEF vice chairman Kao Koong-lian, will pave way for the upcoming sixth round of cross-Strait talks towards the end of this month in Taipei.
The SEF said the preparatory consultation will further discuss the text of a medical and health cooperation agreement and follow-up negotiations on a cross-Strait investment protection agreement.
The two sides will also exchange views on the agenda of the sixth round of talks and various preparatory works.
Journalists wanting to cover this new round of talks could sign up before noon on Dec. 13.
The ARATS and SEF are the two institutions respectively authorized by the mainland and Taiwan to handle cross-Strait affairs. They resumed talks in 2008.
Also on Thursday, the mainland' s Taiwan affairs chief Wang Yi said in Beijing that the two sides had completed consultations at the expert level on the agreement of medical and health cooperation, and would likely sign the deal during the talks.
Wang, director of both the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, said when meeting with a Taiwanese delegation led by Fredrick Chien, chief advisor of Taiwan's Cross-Straits Common Market Foundation, that the two sides also made "positive progress" in consultations concerning the cross-Strait investment protection agreement.
He said the investment protection agreement was an important part of the follow-up negotiations after the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), which aims to further normalize trade and investment relations across the Strait, took effect in September.
Preparatory talks on further cross-Strait cooperation start Tuesday
Negotiators from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan are scheduled to hold preparatory talks on economic and health-care cooperation on Dec. 14 in Shanghai, the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) announced Thursday.
The preparatory consultation, to be conducted by Zheng Lizhong, executive vice president of the mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), and SEF vice chairman Kao Koong-lian, will pave way for the upcoming sixth round of cross-Strait talks towards the end of this month in Taipei.
The SEF said the preparatory consultation will further discuss the text of a medical and health cooperation agreement and follow-up negotiations on a cross-Strait investment protection agreement.
The two sides will also exchange views on the agenda of the sixth round of talks and various preparatory works.
Journalists wanting to cover this new round of talks could sign up before noon on Dec. 13.
The ARATS and SEF are the two institutions respectively authorized by the mainland and Taiwan to handle cross-Strait affairs. They resumed talks in 2008.
Also on Thursday, the mainland' s Taiwan affairs chief Wang Yi said in Beijing that the two sides had completed consultations at the expert level on the agreement of medical and health cooperation, and would likely sign the deal during the talks.
Wang, director of both the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, said when meeting with a Taiwanese delegation led by Fredrick Chien, chief advisor of Taiwan's Cross-Straits Common Market Foundation, that the two sides also made "positive progress" in consultations concerning the cross-Strait investment protection agreement.
He said the investment protection agreement was an important part of the follow-up negotiations after the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), which aims to further normalize trade and investment relations across the Strait, took effect in September.
Preparatory talks on further cross-Strait cooperation start Tuesday
