An official in Taiwan said Sunday that nearly 600 reporters from 138 media organizations were approved to cover the upcoming Chinese mainland delegation's trip to Taiwan.
Liu Teh-hsun, deputy director of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council, told a news conference that 1,047 journalists had applied to cover the event and 574 of them were finally approved. They were either Taiwan reporters or of media outside the island.
Chen Yunlin, president of mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), will lead a delegation to Taiwan from Nov. 3 to 7.
Liu said Chen's delegation would arrive at Taipei's Taoyuan airport around 11:00 a.m. Monday and go directly to the Grand Hotel, which had been swarmed with reporters.
The Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman Chiang Pin-kung would welcome Chen at the hotel and Chen was to deliver the first formal speech of the visit at the main hall of the hotel.
It would be the first meeting held in the island between the two organizations.
Liu said Chen was to pay a visit on Monday to the wife of Koo Chen-fu, former SEF chairman who passed away in 2005, and Chen would have a view of Taipei's city outlook by ascending the "TAIPEI 101", a 508-meter building with 101 floors.
On Monday evening, Chen would attend the SEF's welcoming dinner in the building, he said, adding ARATS vice president and SEF vice chairman would hold preliminary talks at 3:30 p.m. that day.
According to the itinerary, the official talks between leaders of the ARATS and SEF would be held in the morning of Nov. 4. The two organizations would sign some documents in the afternoon and met the press.
After the talks, Chen would meet with major political leaders in the island, including ruling Kuomintang (KMT) chairman Wu Poh-hsiung, KMT honorary chairman Lien Chan, Mainland Affairs Council chair Lai Shin-yuan and the People First Party chairman James Soong, on Nov. 4 and Nov. 5.
Chen Yunlin and his delegation would visit a technology and industry zone in Hsinchu on Nov. 5.
On the fourth day of the delegation's trip to Taiwan, they would attend a ceremony in which the mainland would present giant pandas and rare plants to the Taiwan compatriots, while the Taiwan side would present rare animals to the mainland.
Source: Xinhua
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