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Article: 3rd Ld-Writethru-China Focus: Chinese mainland tourist groups to visit Taiwan from next month
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- June 13, 2008
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3rd Ld-Writethru-China Focus: Chinese mainland tourist groups to
visit Taiwan from next month
BEIJING, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese mainland tourists can visit
Taiwan from next month following the landmark agreement signed here
Friday morning.
The mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan
Straits (ARATS) chairman Chen Yunlin and the Taiwan-based Straits
Exchange Foundation (SEF) chairman Chiang Pin-kun signed the two
agreements around 9 a.m. Friday after the organizations resumed
talks after nine years.
The agreement, taking effect from June 20, will see the arrival
of the first tourist group to Taiwan on July 4.
The two sides set a quota for the number of tourists in line ...