NANJING, April 28 (Xinhuanet) --
The visiting Kuomintang (KMT), or the Nationalist Party of China, delegation
left Nanjing at 9:30 a.m. Thursday for Beijing to embark on the second leg of
its mainland visit.
The delegation, headed by KMT
Chairman Lien Chan, is scheduled to meet with officials of the Beijing Municipal
Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), hold a working meeting with the
Taiwan Work Office of the CPC Central Committee in Beijing Thursday.
Hu Jintao, general secretary of
the CPC Central Committee, will meet the delegation in Beijing Friday. This will
be the first meeting between chiefs of the two parties in 60 years.
KMT spokeswoman Cheng Li-wen said
the delegation was moved and very much inspired by the warmth of Nanjing people.
"In addition to political wisdom
of leaders on both sides, enthusiasm of the people is also important to
promoting cross-Straits relations," said the spokesman.
KMT spokesman Chang Jung-kung
described the Nanjing visit as a nostalgic trip as the delegation paid homage to
the Mausoleum of Sun Yat-sen, forerunner of China's Democratic Revolution and
founder of the KMT.
He described the coming visit to
Beijing as a trip of reconciliation, the visit to Xi'an as a home-coming trip
and the trip to Shanghai, China's financial capital and the last leg of the
mainland visit, as a trip of hope.
The
delegation is expected to meet with Wang Daohan, president of the Association
for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS).Wang has played an important
role in previous cross-Straits talks.