A delegation of between 500 and 1,000 people headed by Zhejiang Governor Lu Zushan (呂祖善) is scheduled to arrive in Taiwan on Wednesday for a week-long visit and attend a Taiwan-Zhejiang economic and cultural cooperation forum on Thursday.
Straits Exchange Foundation Chairman Chiang Pin-kung (江丙坤) and former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairman Lien Chan (連戰) will speak during the forum, which will be hosted by Preston Chen (陳武雄), the chairman of the Taipei-based Chinese National Federation of Industries.
Zhejiang Vice Governor Gong Zheng (龔正) and Zhejiang University president Yang Wei (楊衛) will also attend the conference, as will several Taiwanese business leaders, including Hon Hai Precision Industry chairman Terry Gou (郭台銘) and Yulon Group chairman Kenneth Yen (嚴凱泰).
Representatives of six Zhejiang companies in the delegation will also evaluate the feasibility of investing about US$10.12 million in Taiwan in exhibition centers for cosmetics and brand name products and light industrial machinery.
The delegation will also call on a number of companies in the banking and industrial sectors, including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world’s largest contract chip maker.
It will also attend a cross-Taiwan Strait forum on agricultural and tourism development in Nantou.
In Kaohsiung County, the group will participate in a seminar on village exchanges and a signing ceremony for the procurement of Taiwanese fruit.
It is also scheduled to attend an event in Kaohsiung City to promote tourism in Taiwan and Zhejiang.
Before concluding its visit in Taiwan, the group is expected to head to Taipei County for an exhibition featuring Zhejiang’s Liangzhu culture, which will open on June 15 at the Shihsanhang Museum of Archaeology, a spokesman for the museum said.
A total of 100 Neolithic jade items from the Liangzhu period, dating back between 4,300 and 5,300 years, will be showcased during the exhibition that runs until Sept. 5.
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