Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung (吳伯雄) is planning to visit China and to meet Chinese President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤), a Chinese-language newspaper reported yesterday.
The China Times said Wu intended to meet Hu during a visit in June.
KMT spokesman Huang Yu-chen (黃玉振) did not deny the report yesterday, saying that “Chairman Wu has said he did not rule out visiting the mainland.”
“No schedule has been drafted yet,” he said.
Wu would become the first head of a Taiwanese political party in power to meet Hu.
The report said that weekend charter flights and allowing more Chinese tourists to visit Taiwan would be on the agenda for the Wu-Hu meeting.
The incoming KMT administration’s top negotiator, Chiang Pin-kung (江丙坤), flew to China on Thursday and was in Xiamen for a short visit yesterday.
Chiang met He Lifeng (何立峰), secretary of the Chinese Communist Party of the Xiamen Municipal Committee.
Chiang said that as soon as Ma is inaugurated on May 20, he would ensure that cross-strait weekend charter flights are launched, restrictions on people traveling across the Taiwan Strait via Kinmen and Matsu relaxed and that Taiwan opens its doors to Chinese tourists.
Chiang was scheduled to depart for Shenzhen and Dongguan, Guangdong Province, yesterday.
Former KMT chairman Lien Chan (連戰) will travel to China today and meet Hu, three years after his first meeting with the Chinese leader.
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