Taiwan gets bigger voice

BEIJING - Taiwan people in Fujian province will gradually be given more say in local political life, a senior local official has said.

Since 2007, some Taiwan people, mostly entrepreneurs in the province, have been invited to attend local committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference as non-voting delegates to make their voices heard by decision-makers, Deng Benyuan, head of the Taiwan affairs office of Fujian, told China Daily on the sidelines of the National People's Congress session.

The practice has been introduced in Fuzhou, Zhangzhou, and Xiamen.