Cross-Straits symposium advocates national rejuvenation, integration

BEIJING - Chinese mainland and Taiwan participants at a symposium held here Wednesday proposed to work together for rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and promote cross-Straits integration.

The symposium was jointly held by the mainland-based cross-Straits Relations Research Center and the Taiwan-based Study Club of New China Youth.

About 110 people from two sides of the Taiwan Straits attended the meeting, including Liu Jieyi, director of the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, and Chairman of Taiwan's New Party Yok Mu-ming.

Participants at the symposium issued a joint proposal denouncing "Taiwan independence" and pledging to work together for peaceful reunification of the motherland, rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, deeper cross-Straits integration, closer exchanges between young people on the two sides and the promotion of traditional Chinese culture.