Yeh, he wants to be a bridge across Straits

SHANGHAI: "You can't imagine how warm the atmosphere is," Hector Yeh said.

He was speaking from Taiwan, where, as executive vice-president of the Association of Taiwan Investment Enterprises on the Mainland (ATIEM), he attended the welcome dinner for the mainland delegation on Monday.

The 57-year-old president of Shanghai Longfong Food Co is a native of Kaohsiung in southwestern Taiwan, and has been living in Shanghai for 17 years, which he calls his second home.