| (From L to R) Chen Yunlin, president of the Chinese mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, Li Shenglin, Chinese minister of communications, Lien Chan, Kuomintang honorary chairman, Zhang Gaoli, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and chief of the CPC Tianjin Municipal Committee, Zheng Wantong, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and Wang Yi, director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of China's State Council (Cabinet), attend the ceremony marking the start of direct sea transport between China's mainland and Taiwan in north China's Tianjin port, Dec. 15, 2008. The Chinese mainland and Taiwan started direct air and sea transport and postal services Monday morning. [Xinhua] |
