Taiwan-based People First Party (PFP) Chairman James Soong will attend a non-governmental forum of elites in the Chinese mainland city of Shanghai in mid-September, according to media reports in Taiwan.

A PFP official said the forum, also known as the non-governmental forum of elites from both sides of the Taiwan Straits, aims to implement the communique of talks between General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Hu Jintao and PFP Chairman James Soong and build a platform for exchanges across the Straits.

The communique was issued after a meeting between Hu and Soong on May 12, 2005.

The forum will be jointly held by the Taiwan Work Office of the CPC Central Committee and the PFP. More than 100 experts, scholars and entrepreneurs will be invited to the forum.

Source: Xinhua