A group of Taiwan personages arrived here on Thursday for the funeral service of Wang Daohan, the mainland's chief negotiator on Taiwan affairs, slated for Friday.

Wang, president of the mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), died of disease in this east China metropolis last Saturday, at the age of 90.

By 7 p.m. Thursday, those who had arrived in Shanghai included Yen Cho-yun, who is widow of Koo Chen-fu, the late counterpart of Wang in Taiwan, Chiu Cheyne, former secretary-general of the Taiwan-based Strait Exchange Foundation, Wu Poh-hsiung, vice chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang party, Chin Chin-sheng, secretary-general of the People First Party, and Yok Mu-ming, chairman of the New Party.

Among them were also representatives of the Hsin Tungmung Hui and the Alliance for the Reunification of China.

The funeral service of Wang is scheduled to be held at Longhua funeral parlor of Shanghai at 10:00 a.m. Friday.

Source: Xinhua