Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Sunday, January 27, 2002
Forum Marks Jiang Zemin's Speech on Reunification
More than 200 people from all walks of life in Shanghai, eastern China metropolis gathered at a forum Friday to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Eight-Point Proposals on Peaceful Reunification of the Motherland by Chinese President Jiang Zemin.
More than 200 people from all walks of life in Shanghai, eastern China metropolis gathered at a forum Friday to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Eight-Point Proposals on Peaceful Reunification of the Motherland by Chinese President Jiang Zemin.
The participants re-studied Jiang's speech, made on January 30,1995, and China's policies on the Taiwan issue, and recalled the progress made in the city's exchanges with Taiwan over the past seven years.
They promised to act in accordance with Jiang's speech and promote exchanges between Shanghai and Taiwan, to contribute to the reunification of the motherland.
Liu Yungeng, deputy secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, and representatives from the Shanghai branch of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang and of the Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League spoke at the forum.